I appreciate your interest in Bitcoin, but I trust that you understand your proposal adds nothing to the current discussion and recommend you read more emails from this mailing list. On 14/09/2015 11:47 am, "Jason Livesay via bitcoin-dev" < bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > After studying the issues I believe that the situation warrants a > short-term modest blockchain increase. Somewhere between 2mb-5mb, whatever > the community will swallow. I recommend that happen before the winter > shopping rush. > > Then, because of the fundamental technical limitations of scaling, a new > system needs to be adopted for fast transactions. To maintain momentum > etc., the new system ultimately settles with traditional bitcoins. > > In order to keep the existing brand momentum, network, and business > investment, I believe the smoothest path forward is to build a new, > additional system re-using the bitcoin name. I suggest this new system > come packaged with the bitcoin core client and be referred to as > QuickBitcoin or qbtc or something similar. As far as the public is > concerned it could simply continue to be called bitcoin. The system will > work on top of traditional bitcoins but have a mechanism for more/faster > transactions. Exactly what mechanism doesn't have to be perfect, it just > needs to be reasonably secure/useful and something that the community will > accept. > > I believe this is the best way to scale bitcoin while maintaining the > strength of its existing network, community, and branding. > > _______________________________________________ > bitcoin-dev mailing list > bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org > https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev > >