Also I hope this doesn't kill the cult of the divine megabyte but the commit which added the "1MB limit" wasn't even authored by Satoshi (at least not according to git) and was lumped in casually with a number of other fixes title "fix openssl linkage problems, disable minimize to tray on Linux because it has too many problems including a CPU peg bug"
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/commit/a30b56ebe76ffff9f9cc8a6667186179413c6349I don't care who added it or why; the number itself is completely arbitrary. Gavin is not arguing for a permanent replacement of some magic number; he's arguing for increasing the number perpetually. I am not against changing the limit if for some reason in the far future it's figured out that the network would literally halt if left unchanged. It's not the idea that I oppose; it's that there is
no such thing as an idea. There are only people: people I trust, and people that I don't trust. And I
don't trust Gavin.