On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 5:48 PM, Aaron Voisine <voisine@gmail.com> wrote:
We have $3billion plus of value in this system to defend. The safe, conservative course is to increase the block size. Miners already have an incentive to find ways to encourage higher fees  and we can help them with standard recommended propagation rules and hybrid priority/fee transaction selection for blocks that increases confirmation delays for low fee transactions.

You may find that the most economical solution, but I can't understand how you can call it conservative.

Suggesting a hard fork is betting the survival of the entire ecosystem on the bet that everyone will agree with and upgrade to new suggested software before a flag date.

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Pieter