<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:2015-06-18&#xA;📝 Original message:On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 2:58 PM, Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik at bitpay.com&gt; wrote:&#xA;&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; The whole point is getting out in front of the need, to prevent&#xA;&gt; significant negative impact to users when blocks are consistently full.&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; To do that, you need to (a) plan forward, in order to (b) set a hard fork&#xA;&gt; date in the future.&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&#xA;Or alternatively, fix the reasons why users would have negative experiences&#xA;with full blocks, chiefly:&#xA;&#xA;  * Get safe forms of replace-by-fee and child-pays-for-parent finished and&#xA;in 0.12.&#xA;  * Develop cross-platform libraries for managing micropayment channels,&#xA;and get wallet authors to adopt&#xA;  * Use fidelity bonds, solvency proofs, and other tricks to minimize the&#xA;risk of already deployed off-chain solutions as an interim measure until:&#xA;  * Deploy soft-fork changes for truly scalable solutions like Lightning&#xA;Network.&#xA;&#xA;Not raising the block size limit does not mean doing nothing to solve the&#xA;problem.&#xA;-------------- next part --------------&#xA;An HTML attachment was scrubbed...&#xA;URL: &lt;http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/attachments/20150618/b7699ac6/attachment.html&gt;</html></oembed>