<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><author_name>npub10plv6jx6pktpp5ezldnus6kj8ffg045g2kdjl78w23njrlveqy5s3pfaef</author_name><author_url>https://nostr.ae/npub10plv6jx6pktpp5ezldnus6kj8ffg045g2kdjl78w23njrlveqy5s3pfaef</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://nostr.ae</provider_url><html>📅 Original date posted:2015-05-07&#xA;📝 Original message:Can I just add my own support for this - as has been stated elsewhere in &#xA;this discussion, hard forks are difficult, and risky. The earlier we &#xA;have a decision, and the earlier the change goes into the code, the &#xA;easier that is.&#xA;&#xA;Even if the decision was the actual block size change is fine to leave &#xA;until 2020, I&#39;d like to see the code committed ASAP so that every new &#xA;install, and every upgrade from there on gets the new version.&#xA;&#xA;My personal opinion only is that 7 transactions a second is insanely &#xA;limited even if the main chain does nothing but act as a backbone &#xA;between other chains and transaction networks. I don&#39;t think that&#39;s &#xA;overly controversial. I think 2016 is too early for a 20mb block size, &#xA;though. I&#39;m inclined to suggest a schedule of expansion, say to 2mb in &#xA;2016, 4mb in 2018, 8mb in 2020 and 20mb in 2022 where it stops. The &#xA;intent would be to provide enough size pressure to motivate scaling &#xA;work, while not limiting Bitcoin overly.&#xA;&#xA;Further, I think this highlights that we need more work on fees. Right &#xA;now fees and transactions included are fairly naive, but I&#39;d like to see &#xA;the absolute block size limit as a hard upper bound, with miners &#xA;imposing soft limits based on a balance cost of storage, number of &#xA;outputs vs inputs (and therefore impact on the UTXOs), and risk of &#xA;orphan blocks to determine which transactions are actually worth &#xA;including in each block. If anyone has numbers on block size vs orphan &#xA;rate that would be really useful, BTW.&#xA;&#xA;Ross&#xA;&#xA;On 07/05/2015 19:06, Mike Hearn wrote:&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt;     I think you are rubbing against your own presupposition that&#xA;&gt;     people must find and alternative right now. Quite a lot here do&#xA;&gt;     not believe there is any urgency, nor that there is an immanent&#xA;&gt;     problem that has to be solved before the sky falls in.&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; I have explained why I believe there is some urgency, whereby &#34;some &#xA;&gt; urgency&#34; I mean, assuming it takes months to implement, merge, test, &#xA;&gt; release and for people to upgrade.&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; But if it makes you happy, imagine that this discussion happens all &#xA;&gt; over again next year and I ask the same question.&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; ------------------------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;&gt; One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud&#xA;&gt; Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications&#xA;&gt; Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights&#xA;&gt; Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight.&#xA;&gt; http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; _______________________________________________&#xA;&gt; Bitcoin-development mailing list&#xA;&gt; Bitcoin-development at lists.sourceforge.net&#xA;&gt; https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development&#xA;&#xA;-------------- next part --------------&#xA;An HTML attachment was scrubbed...&#xA;URL: &lt;http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/attachments/20150507/11ec6034/attachment.html&gt;</html></oembed>