On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 1:07 PM, Rick Wesson > wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 9:46 AM, Gregory Maxwell > wrote: > >> On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Luke-Jr 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. > > how about trend, its a hard limit and as you acknowledged below we are not there yet; however the trend is for more transactions and we will bump into the limit. Being good architects we should consider how to scale or explicitly state why its a good idea not to. -rick > 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. > no one ever "knows" what the network dynamics are going to be in developing infrastructure -- so lets not kid our selves, in being able to estimate this before the code is even written. -rick