<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><author_name>npub1uu2fve28mkg68uequseraz8gee7qg64733lr9r2g4c0xs5pmqnuslr4rpf</author_name><author_url>https://nostr.ae/npub1uu2fve28mkg68uequseraz8gee7qg64733lr9r2g4c0xs5pmqnuslr4rpf</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://nostr.ae</provider_url><html>📅 Original date posted:2015-08-04&#xA;📝 Original message:-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----&#xA;Hash: SHA1&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;On 08/04/2015 08:28 PM, Hector Chu via bitcoin-dev wrote:&#xA;&gt; On 4 August 2015 at 14:13, Jorge Timón &lt;jtimon at jtimon.cc &#xA;&gt; &lt;mailto:jtimon at jtimon.cc&gt;&gt; wrote:&#xA;&gt; &#xA;&gt; 2) It doesn&#39;t matter who is to blame about the current&#xA;&gt; centralization: the fact remains that the blocksize maximum is the&#xA;&gt; only** consensus rule to limit mining centralization.&#xA;&gt; &#xA;&gt; &#xA;&gt; Repeating a claim ad-nauseum doesn&#39;t make it necessarily true. A&#xA;&gt; block size limit won&#39;t prevent miners in the future from buying&#xA;&gt; each other out.&#xA;&gt; &#xA;&#xA;It plays both ways, the technical list requires a proof of concept and&#xA;simulation upon which to base judgment going forward, else we&#39;ll just&#xA;be talking out our backsides (like certain people) without making any&#xA;progress.&#xA;&#xA;The tools for simulation exist: Jorge Timon created a variable&#xA;blocksize regtest PR here:&#xA;https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/6382&#xA;&#xA;No-one needs to postulate what different blocksizes imply  - anyone&#xA;can run a simulation and demonstrate what they&#39;re talking about.&#xA;&#xA;&gt; _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing&#xA;&gt; list bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org &#xA;&gt; https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev&#xA;&gt; &#xA;-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----&#xA;Version: GnuPG v1&#xA;&#xA;iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJVwMFEAAoJEGwAhlQc8H1mo/EH/2USw5YUL/7sgFAsjpXdpcS+&#xA;9XZ0M0AK4PNSo36GBBhjaF9rRa76FtK6Vt9nLe+7lgYmeHSkcQ65OLKfP47hCnsz&#xA;9XfVR0n7nv+0TqHQKPcjm+WNBoVndKRHGEwNQoQw//bAmO4LOcmQCMXAkk9RfaKm&#xA;4olay0nUmAFNqh/7wVOunOUFMJNIRpy/neAlFYxRAHBIJLcc0KQNiLqAHbzwPDZq&#xA;e9kLjtIusWwLUCgHFvox01bIEOx+VYIxzjMVRz1MNGyRGwDweg7zk54WA48nYwmx&#xA;70Ggdde9kiLytPDwB2ey/IRE4mv/4KS2zivJy36XAsjPExTNeGKxGeGfBqXNwSI=&#xA;=aya4&#xA;-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----</html></oembed>