<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><author_name>npub17ty4mumkv43w8wtt0xsz2jypck0gvw0j8xrcg6tpea25z2nh7meqf4qgyd</author_name><author_url>https://nostr.ae/npub17ty4mumkv43w8wtt0xsz2jypck0gvw0j8xrcg6tpea25z2nh7meqf4qgyd</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://nostr.ae</provider_url><html>📅 Original date posted:2015-05-29&#xA;📝 Original message:&gt;&#xA;&gt; If the plan is a fix once and for all, then that should be changed too.&#xA;&gt; It could be set so that it is at least some multiple of the max block size&#xA;&gt; allowed.&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&#xA;Well, but RAM is not infinite :-) Effectively what these caps are doing is&#xA;setting the minimum hardware requirements for running a Bitcoin node.&#xA;&#xA;That&#39;s OK by me - I don&#39;t think we are actually going to exhaust the&#xA;hardware abilities of any reasonable computer any time soon, but still,&#xA;having the software recognise the finite nature of a computing machine&#xA;doesn&#39;t seem unwise.&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&gt; That system can send a block of any size.  It would require a change to&#xA;&gt; the processing of any merkleblocks received.&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&#xA;Not &#34;any&#34; size because, again, the remote node must buffer things up and&#xA;have the transaction data actually in memory in order to digest it. But a&#xA;much larger size, yes.&#xA;&#xA;However, that&#39;s a bigger change.&#xA;-------------- next part --------------&#xA;An HTML attachment was scrubbed...&#xA;URL: &lt;http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/attachments/20150529/6aebe66a/attachment.html&gt;</html></oembed>