{"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:2015-07-23\n📝 Original message:On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 12:17 PM, Tom Harding via bitcoin-dev \u003c\nbitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org\u003e wrote:\n\n\u003e On 7/23/2015 5:17 AM, Jorge Timón via bitcoin-dev wrote:\n\u003e \u003e they will simply advance the front and start another battle, because\n\u003e \u003e their true hidden faction is the \"not ever side\". Please, Jeff, Gavin,\n\u003e \u003e Mike, show me that I'm wrong on this point. Please, answer my question\n\u003e \u003e this time. If \"not now\", then when?\n\u003e\n\u003e Bitcoin has all the hash power.  The merkle root has effectively\n\u003e infinite capacity.  We should be asking HOW to scale the supporting\n\u003e information propagation system appropriately, not WHEN to limit the\n\u003e capacity of the primary time-stamping machine.\n\u003e\n\u003e We haven't tried yet.  I can't answer for the people you asked, but\n\u003e personally I haven't thought much about when we should declare failure.\n\n\nYes! Lets plan for success!\n\nI'd really like to move from \"IMPOSSIBLE because...  (electrum hasn't been\noptimized\n(by the way: you should run on SSDs, LevelDB isn't designed for spinning\ndisks),\nwhat if the network is attacked?  (attacked HOW???), current p2p network is\nusing\nthe simplest, stupidest possible block propagation algorithm...)\"\n\n... to \"lets work together and work through the problems and scale it up.\"\n\nI'm frankly tired of all the negativity here; so tired of it I've decided\nto mostly ignore\nall the debate for a while, not respond to misinformation I see being spread\n(like \"miners have some incentive to create slow-to-propagate blocks\"),\nwork with people like Tom and Mike who have a 'lets get it done' attitude,\nand\nfocus on what it will take to scale up.\n\n-- \n--\nGavin Andresen\n-------------- next part --------------\nAn HTML attachment was scrubbed...\nURL: \u003chttp://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/attachments/20150723/9a8c53b6/attachment.html\u003e"}