<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><author_name>npub1fx98zxt3lzspjs5f4msr0fxysx5euucm29ghysryju7vpc9j0jzqtcl2d8</author_name><author_url>https://nostr.ae/npub1fx98zxt3lzspjs5f4msr0fxysx5euucm29ghysryju7vpc9j0jzqtcl2d8</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://nostr.ae</provider_url><html>📅 Original date posted:2015-08-12&#xA;📝 Original message:I believe all concerns I&#39;ve read can be classified in the following groups:&#xA;&#xA;&gt; 1) Potential indirect consequence of rising fees.&#xA;&#xA;- Lowest fee transactions (currently free transactions) will become&#xA;more unreliable.&#xA;- People will migrate to competing systems (PoW altcoins) with lower fees.&#xA;&#xA;&gt; 2) Software problem independent of a concrete block size that needs to&#xA;&gt; be solved anyway, often specific to Bitcoin Core (ie other&#xA;&gt; implementations, say libbitcoin may not necessarily share these&#xA;&gt; problems).&#xA;&#xA;- Bitcoin Core&#39;s mempool is unbounded in size and can make the program&#xA;crash by using too much memory.&#xA;- There&#39;s no good way to increase the fee of a transaction that is&#xA;taking too long to be mined without the &#34;double spending&#34; transaction&#xA;with the higher fee being blocked by most nodes which follow Bitcoin&#xA;Core&#39;s default policy for conflicting spends replacements (aka &#34;first&#xA;seen&#34; replacement policy).&#xA;&#xA;I have started with the 3 concerns that I read more often, but please&#xA;suggest more concerns for these categories and suggest other&#xA;categories if you think there&#39;s more.</html></oembed>