On 16 August 2015 at 15:49, Mike Hearn via bitcoin-dev < bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > Sorry you feel that way. I devoted a big part of the article to trying to > fairly represent the top 3 arguments made, but ultimately I can't link to a > clear statement of what Bitcoin Core thinks because there isn't one. Some > people think the block size should increase, but not now, or not by much. > Others think it should stay at 1mb forever, others think everyone should > migrate to Lightning, people who are actually *implementing* Lightning > think it's not a replacement for an increase ..... I think one or two > people even suggested shrinking the block size! > ​That's been really unclear to me. Personally, I'd love to see a vote from the core and XT developers on: - what should the block size soft limit be in 12 months (min and max) - what should the block size hard limit be in 12 months (min and max) - at what rate should the hard limit grow over the next 10 years​ (min and max) - what mechanism should be used to update the soft limit (manual code change, time based, blockchain history, something else) ​ - what me​chanism should be used to update the hard limit (hard fork code change, time based, blockchain history, something else) Bonus: ​ - what should the ​transaction ​ fee level be in 12 months (after the reward halves)?​ - what's a good measure of "(de)centralisation" and what value should everyone aim for in 12 months? As an interested newbie, I can't actually tell what most people think the answers to most of those questions are. FWIW, mine would be: - soft limit in 12 months: 1MB-4MB - hard limit in 12 months: 2MB-20MB - hard limit grows at 17-40% a year (and should be >4x average txn volume) - update the soft limit by code changes or blockchain history - update the hardlimit by (1) fee level, (2) miner vote, (3) hard coded time updates at a conservative (low) rate, (4) hard fork every couple of years - transaction fees should in 12months should be lower per kB than today's defaults, say 20%-50% of today's defaults in USD - number of bitcoin nodes, should be 20% higher in 12 months than it is now ​Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns