<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><author_name>Tom Harding [ARCHIVE] (npub1ms…pmwjy)</author_name><author_url>https://nostr.ae/npub1msef5qkfwz4t7qacwxz775wgdtlytph78g2g2z903x90874u263sypmwjy</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://nostr.ae</provider_url><html>📅 Original date posted:2015-08-06&#xA;📝 Original message:On 8/6/2015 7:53 AM, Pieter Wuille via bitcoin-dev wrote:&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; So if we would have 8 MB blocks, and there is a sudden influx of users&#xA;&gt; (or settlement systems, who serve much more users) who want to pay&#xA;&gt; high fees (let&#39;s say 20 transactions per second) making the block&#xA;&gt; chain inaccessible for low fee transactions, and unreliable for medium&#xA;&gt; fee transactions (for any value of low, medium, and high), would you&#xA;&gt; be ok with that?&#xA;&#xA;Gavin has answered this question in the clearest way possible -- in&#xA;tested C++ code, which increases capacity only on a precise schedule for&#xA;20 years, then stops increasing.</html></oembed>