who knows how much further MC achievements might have been accomplished if BS core devs were spending all that time working on Bitcoin Core that they undoubtedly have been dedicating to the spvp for the last year and a half. forget that shit and get behind Gavin and increase blocksize. now is the time to do this.
A hard fork to increase blocksize may be needed, but the proposed exponential blocksize growth is both unnecessary and harmful to propagation of the sufficient bitcoin nodes desired for resilience.
I'm curious to know what you (and others btw) make of Mircea Popescu and his crew's position that blocksize should not (arguably never) be increased
Early on I saw lots of opportunity for business services for expand transactions, many business ideas will be enhanced by a limited block size.
I think the idea enables an alternate outcome I now feel the primary experiment is unlimited block size and a secondary more radical experiment is limiting the number of transactions.
The reason being storing the blockchain is priced in to the incentive structure for those who have an invested interest in its integrity, it is a service the wealthy provide to the network for using the network.