<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><author_name>npub13rv3raner7hu6npy7vxxvdswdapae65pnw8jjs4c80wtp2nmg4xq9cy5l4</author_name><author_url>https://nostr.ae/npub13rv3raner7hu6npy7vxxvdswdapae65pnw8jjs4c80wtp2nmg4xq9cy5l4</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://nostr.ae</provider_url><html>📅 Original date posted:2015-06-27&#xA;📝 Original message:Demand to participate in a low-fee global consensus network will likely&#xA;continue to rise. Technology already exists to meet that rising demand&#xA;using a blockchain with sufficient block size. Whether that blockchain is&#xA;Bitcoin Core with an increased block size, or whether it is a fork, market&#xA;forces make it almost certain that demand will be met by a blockchain with&#xA;adequate capacity. These forces ensure that not only today’s block size&#xA;will be increased, but also that future increases will occur should the&#xA;demand arise.&#xA;&#xA;In order to survive, Bitcoin Core must remain the lowest-fee,&#xA;highest-capacity, most secure, distributed, fastest, overall best solution&#xA;possible to the global consensus problem. Attempting to artificially&#xA;constrain the block size below the limits of technology for any reason is a&#xA;conflict with this objective and a threat to the survival of Bitcoin Core.&#xA;At the same time, scheduling large future increases or permitting unlimited&#xA;dynamic scaling of the block size limit raises concerns over availability&#xA;of future computing resources. Instead, we should manually increase the&#xA;block size limit as demand occurs, except in the special case that&#xA;increasing the limit would cause an undue burden upon users wishing to&#xA;validate the integrity of the blockchain.&#xA;&#xA;Compromise: Can we agree that raising the block size to a static 8MB now&#xA;with a plan to increase it further should demand necessitate except in the&#xA;special case above is a reasonable path forward?&#xA;-------------- next part --------------&#xA;An HTML attachment was scrubbed...&#xA;URL: &lt;http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/attachments/20150627/5e051f1b/attachment.html&gt;</html></oembed>