Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Block Size Increase

From: Jeff Garzik <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 7 May 2015 11:17:03 -0400

On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 11:12 AM, Mike Hearn <[email-masked]> wrote:

>
> That's why I conclude the opposite - if there is no fork, then people's
> confidence in Bitcoin will be seriously damaged.
>

Yes, that is a possibility.

> If it's impossible to do something as trivial as removing a temporary hack
> Satoshi put in place, then what about bigger challenges?
>

This is absolutely not a trivial change.

It is a trivial *code* change.  It is not a trivial change to the economics
of a $3.2B system.

-- 
Jeff Garzik
Bitcoin core developer and open source evangelist
BitPay, Inc.      https://bitpay.com/