<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:2015-08-07&#xA;📝 Original message:On Friday 7. August 2015 19.33.34 Jorge Timón via bitcoin-dev wrote:&#xA;&gt; When &#34;the network runs out of capacity&#34; (when we hit the limit) do we&#xA;&gt; expect anything to happen apart from minimum market fees rising (above&#xA;&gt; zero)?&#xA;&#xA;How many clients actually evict transactions from their mempool currently? If &#xA;the backlog grows infinitely (as a result of more in than out), that would be &#xA;a problem.&#xA;How many wallets re-transmit their transaction when your local full nodes &#xA;mempool no longer has it? Problem.&#xA;&#xA;What will the backlash be when people here that are pushing for &#34;off-chain-&#xA;transactions&#34; fail to produce a properly working alternative, which &#xA;essentially means we have to say NO to more users. We can&#39;t service you, &#xA;sorry. Please go away.&#xA;&#xA;At this time and this size of bitcoin community, my personal experience (and &#xA;I&#39;ve been part of many communities) saying NO to new customers will kill the &#xA;product totally. Or, if we are lucky, just make an altcoin that quickly &#xA;becomes the de-facto standard.&#xA;-- &#xA;Thomas Zander</html></oembed>