On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 10:38 AM, Justus Ranvier <justusranvier@riseup.net> wrote:

On 05/07/2015 04:04 PM, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> - This is a major change to the economics of a $3.2B system. This
> change picks winners and losers. There is attendant moral hazard.

This is exactly true.

There are a number of projects which aren't Bitcoin that benefit from
filling in the gap left by Bitcoin's restricted transaction rate
capability.

If Bitcoin fills that gap, Bitcoin wins and those other projects lose.

Should decisions about Bitcoin development take into account the
desires of competing projects?

heh - I tend to think people here want bitcoin to succeed. My statement refers to picking winners and losers from within the existing bitcoin community & stakeholders.

The existential question of the block size increase is larger - will failing to increase the 1MB limit permanently stunt bitcoin's growth?