<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><author_name>npub1r3san9v5njl6798hvauyu9ntm6r9c7u8s0t65wls58gpfdcvqp5sa48d0u</author_name><author_url>https://nostr.ae/npub1r3san9v5njl6798hvauyu9ntm6r9c7u8s0t65wls58gpfdcvqp5sa48d0u</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://nostr.ae</provider_url><html>📅 Original date posted:2015-07-28&#xA;📝 Original message:Does it matter even in the slightest why the block size limit was put in&#xA;place? It does not. Bitcoin is a decentralized payment network, and the&#xA;relationship between utility (block size) and decentralization is&#xA;empirical. Why the 1MB limit was put in place at the time might be a&#xA;historically interesting question, but it bears little relevance to the&#xA;present engineering issues.&#xA;&#xA;On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 5:43 PM, Jean-Paul Kogelman via bitcoin-dev &lt;&#xA;bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org&gt; wrote:&#xA;&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; &gt; Enter a “temporary” anti-spam measure - a one megabyte block size limit.&#xA;&gt; Let’s test this out, then increase it once we see how things work. So far&#xA;&gt; so good…&#xA;&gt; &gt;&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; The block size limit was put in place as an anti-DoS measure (monster&#xA;&gt; blocks), not &#34;anti-spam&#34;. It was never intended to have any economic&#xA;&gt; effect, not on spam and not on any future fee market.&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; jp&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; _______________________________________________&#xA;&gt; bitcoin-dev mailing list&#xA;&gt; bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org&#xA;&gt; https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev&#xA;&gt;&#xA;-------------- next part --------------&#xA;An HTML attachment was scrubbed...&#xA;URL: &lt;http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/attachments/20150728/106ea598/attachment.html&gt;</html></oembed>