{"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:2015-05-29\n📝 Original message:What do other people think?\n\n\nIf we can't come to an agreement soon, then I'll ask for help\nreviewing/submitting patches to Mike's Bitcoin-Xt project that implement a\nbig increase now that grows over time so we may never have to go through\nall this rancor and debate again.\n\nI'll then ask for help lobbying the merchant services and exchanges and\nhosted wallet companies and other bitcoind-using-infrastructure companies\n(and anybody who agrees with me that we need bigger blocks sooner rather\nthan later) to run Bitcoin-Xt instead of Bitcoin Core, and state that they\nare running it. We'll be able to see uptake on the network by monitoring\nclient versions.\n\nPerhaps by the time that happens there will be consensus bigger blocks are\nneeded sooner rather than later; if so, great! The early deployment will\njust serve as early testing, and all of the software already deployed will\nready for bigger blocks.\n\nBut if there is still no consensus among developers but the \"bigger blocks\nnow\" movement is successful, I'll ask for help getting big miners to do the\nsame, and use the soft-fork block version voting mechanism to (hopefully)\nget a majority and then a super-majority willing to produce bigger blocks.\nThe purpose of that process is to prove to any doubters that they'd better\nstart supporting bigger blocks or they'll be left behind, and to give them\na chance to upgrade before that happens.\n\n\nBecause if we can't come to consensus here, the ultimate authority for\ndetermining consensus is what code the majority of merchants and exchanges\nand miners are running.\n\n\n-- \n--\nGavin Andresen\n-------------- next part --------------\nAn HTML attachment was scrubbed...\nURL: \u003chttp://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/attachments/20150529/3480fef4/attachment.html\u003e"}