<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><author_name>npub1s4lj77xuzcu7wy04afcr487f0r3za0f8n2775xrpkld2sv639mjqsd44kw</author_name><author_url>https://nostr.ae/npub1s4lj77xuzcu7wy04afcr487f0r3za0f8n2775xrpkld2sv639mjqsd44kw</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://nostr.ae</provider_url><html>📅 Original date posted:2015-05-09&#xA;📝 Original message:RE: fixing sigop counting, and building in UTXO cost: great idea! One of&#xA;the problems with this debate is it is easy for great ideas get lost in all&#xA;the noise.&#xA;&#xA;RE: a hard upper limit, with a dynamic limit under it:&#xA;&#xA;I like that idea. Can we drill down on the hard upper limit?&#xA;&#xA;There are lots of people who want a very high upper limit, right now (all&#xA;the big Bitcoin companies, and anybody who thinks as-rapid-as-possible&#xA;growth now is the best path to long-term success). This is the &#34;it is OK if&#xA;you have to run full nodes in a data center&#34; camp.&#xA;&#xA;There are also lots of people who want an upper limit low enough that they&#xA;can continue to run Bitcoin on the hardware and Internet connection that&#xA;they have (or are concerned about centralization, so want to make sure&#xA;OTHER people can continue to run....).&#xA;&#xA;Is there an upper limit &#34;we&#34; can choose to make both sets of people mostly&#xA;happy? I&#39;ve proposed &#34;must be inexpensive enough that a &#39;hobbyist&#39; can&#xA;afford to run a full node&#34; ...&#xA;&#xA;Is the limit chosen once, now, via hard-fork, or should we expect multiple&#xA;hard-forks to change it &#34;when necessary&#34; ?&#xA;&#xA;The economics change every time the block reward halves, which make me&#xA;think that might be a good time to adjust the hard upper limit. If we have&#xA;a hard upper limit and a lower dynamic limit, perhaps adjusting the hard&#xA;upper limit (up or down) to account for the block reward halving, based on&#xA;the dynamic limit....&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;RE: the lower dynamic limit algorithm:  I REALLY like that idea.&#xA;&#xA;-- &#xA;--&#xA;Gavin Andresen&#xA;-------------- next part --------------&#xA;An HTML attachment was scrubbed...&#xA;URL: &lt;http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/attachments/20150509/e371ad58/attachment.html&gt;</html></oembed>