Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] New standard transaction types: time to schedule a blockchain split?

From: Gregory Maxwell <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 13:19:52 -0400

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 1:07 PM, Rick Wesson
<[email-masked]> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 9:46 AM, Gregory Maxwell <[email-masked]> wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Luke-Jr <[email-masked]> wrote:
>>
>> > - Replace hard limits (like 1 MB maximum block size) with something that
>> > can
>> > dynamically adapt with the times. Maybe based on difficulty so it can't
>> > be
>> > gamed?
>> Too early for that.
> Could you provide a reference to why in your estimation it is "to early."
>  Simpy stating this as fact isn't enough to sway demand.

Can you provide a reference to this 'demand' a post by Luke isn't
enough to support the claim of demand.

We're not at maximum size right now (thankfully).

We don't know what the network dynamics would look like at that
traffic level. So how could we competently say what the right metrics
would be to get the right behavior there?  Thats what I meant by too
early.