<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><author_name>npub1du3xh5wgds32a5fweqkd9k45kh30wl7kv2kyu8ugz9c2ztdg00tqqvyg93</author_name><author_url>https://nostr.ae/npub1du3xh5wgds32a5fweqkd9k45kh30wl7kv2kyu8ugz9c2ztdg00tqqvyg93</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://nostr.ae</provider_url><html>📅 Original date posted:2015-08-12&#xA;📝 Original message:On Tuesday 11. August 2015 21.27.46 Jorge Timón wrote:&#xA;&gt; Can we agree that the first step in any potentially bad situation is&#xA;&gt; hitting the limit and then fees rising as a consequence?&#xA;&#xA;Fees rising due to scarcity has nothing to do with the problem. Its a &#xA;consequence that is irrelevant to me.&#xA;&#xA;Bad situations are roughly divided into two parts;&#xA; * technical&#xA; * marketing.&#xA;&#xA;The technical part is that we already know of several technical &#xA;solutions we &#xA;will need when we have a forever growing backlog. Without them, nodes &#xA;will &#xA;crash.&#xA;On top of that, we can expect a lot of new problems we don&#39;t know yet.&#xA;&#xA;IT experts are serious when they say that they avoid maxing out a &#xA;system like &#xA;the plague.&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;Marketing wise full blocks means we can only serve 3 transactions a &#xA;second. &#xA;Which is beyond trivial. All the banks, nasdaq, countries, businesses &#xA;etc etc &#xA;now contemplating using Bitcoin itself will see this as a risk too big to &#xA;ignore and the 1Mb Bitcoin will loose 99% of its perceived value.&#xA;&#xA;If you want fees to rise, then it should be viable to be used, withing 6 &#xA;months, for something bigger than the economic size of Iceland. &#xA;(=random &#xA;smallest country I know).&#xA;&#xA;-- &#xA;Thomas Zander</html></oembed>