From: Gavin Andresen <gavinandresen@gmail•com>
To: Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@gmail•com>
Cc: bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Incorporating block validation rule modifications into the block chain
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 16:02:16 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABsx9T2RWamFxebVJExo_4NT4WPPE=Fd4deG1AFmT=GqjD=vwQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAS2fgR5=nLTBQUBzjZQs91AVw5XSTiqe-KB_T9R9wKfBrOq6Q@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 10:42 AM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@gmail•com>wrote:
> Since, in the long run,
> Bitcoin can't meet its security and decenteralization promises without
> blockspace scarcity to drive non-trivial fees and without scaling
> limits to keep it decenteralized— it's not a change that could be made
> more lightly than changing the supply of coin.
>
I disagree with Gregory on this. I believe that Bitcoin CAN meet its
security and decentralization promises without any hard limit on block
size.
I had a fruitful discussion about this with an economist friend this
weekend, and I'll eventually getting around to writing up why I believe
raising the block size limit will not be a problem.
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Gavin Andresen
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-13 21:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-12 13:49 Raph Frank
2013-02-12 15:49 ` Gregory Maxwell
2013-02-13 14:58 ` Raph Frank
2013-02-13 15:42 ` Gregory Maxwell
2013-02-13 21:02 ` Gavin Andresen [this message]
2013-02-13 21:05 ` Gregory Maxwell
2013-02-13 23:10 ` Stephen Pair
2013-02-14 0:28 ` Gregory Maxwell
2013-02-14 2:44 ` Stephen Pair
2013-02-14 3:38 ` Gregory Maxwell
2013-02-14 5:36 ` Stephen Pair
2013-02-14 6:07 ` Peter Todd
2013-02-14 12:59 ` Stephen Pair
2013-02-18 16:22 ` Peter Todd
2013-02-14 1:02 ` Gregory Maxwell
2013-02-14 6:39 ` Peter Todd
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