{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","author_name":"npub1s4lj77xuzcu7wy04afcr487f0r3za0f8n2775xrpkld2sv639mjqsd44kw","author_url":"https://nostr.ae/npub1s4lj77xuzcu7wy04afcr487f0r3za0f8n2775xrpkld2sv639mjqsd44kw","provider_name":"njump","provider_url":"https://nostr.ae","html":"📅 Original date posted:2015-05-07\n📝 Original message:For reference: the blog post that (re)-started this debate, and which links\nto individual issues, is here:\n  http://gavinandresen.ninja/time-to-roll-out-bigger-blocks\n\nIn it, I asked people to email me objections I might have missed. I would\nstill appreciate it if people do that; it is impossible to keep up with\nthis mailing list, /r/bitcoin posts and comments, and #bitcoin-wizards and\nalso have time to respond thoughtfully to the objections raised.\n\nI would very much like to find some concrete course of action that we can\ncome to consensus on. Some compromise so we can tell entrepreneurs \"THIS is\nhow much transaction volume the main Bitcoin blockchain will be able to\nsupport over the next eleven years.\"\n\nI've been pretty clear on what I think is a reasonable compromise (a\none-time increase scheduled for early next year), and I have tried to\nexplain why I think it it is the right set of tradeoffs.\n\nThere ARE tradeoffs here, and the hard question is what process do we use\nto decide those tradeoffs?  How do we come to consensus? Is it worth my\ntime to spend hours responding thoughtfully to every new objection raised\nhere, or will the same thing happen that happened last year and the year\nbefore-- everybody eventually gets tired of arguing\nangels-dancing-on-the-head-of-a-pin, and we're left with the status quo?\n\nI AM considering contributing some version of the bigger blocksize-limit\nhard-fork patch to the Bitcoin-Xt fork (probably  \"target a hobbyist with a\nfast Internet connection, and assume Nelson's law to increase over time),\nand then encouraging merchants and exchanges and web wallets and\nindividuals who think it strikes a reasonable balance to run it.\n\nAnd then, assuming it became a super-majority of nodes on the network,\nencourage miners to roll out a soft-fork to start producing bigger blocks\nand eventually trigger the hard fork.\n\nBecause ultimately consensus comes down to what software people choose to\nrun.\n\n-- \n--\nGavin Andresen\n-------------- next part --------------\nAn HTML attachment was scrubbed...\nURL: \u003chttp://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/attachments/20150507/125b7e32/attachment.html\u003e"}