Quote from: grau on February 05, 2015, 10:29:46 AM

Quote from: zimmah on February 05, 2015, 10:14:36 AM

judging by your post, you'll be one of the broke ones, because you're too lazy or stupid to make your own rules.

it's the miners that make the rules, not the protocol.

but the protocol should not be a hard limit, because that would just destroy bitcoin.

I'm not going to waste my time thinking of more examples to point this out, i have better things to do.

You know much less about Bitcoin that you think. I hope you have better things to do.

Miner do not make the rules. They have to obey the rules if in minority or can narrow existing rules if organizing a majority cartel.
The later would be needed to impose a non-zero fee in absence of a size limit in the protocol.

you just assume all miners will allow a low fee, but that simply won't be the case.

because it's not sustainable.

for the same reason taxis do not offer free rides, and shops dont offer free products.

like i explained before, you need to calculate a lot of factors, and then decide a cut-off price. And all the miners who dont do that once the fees start to matter more than the block reward will go bankrupt and will be forced to stop.

just because the transaction itself doesnt cost anything (or barely anything) doesnt mean it's free.

Everyone understands that at some point transaction won't be free, because miners need compensation for their power and other costs.

The thing you refuse to understand is that it's better to spread that cost over 1 million transactions per 10 minutes than on 1620 transactions (which, based on empirical evidence is about the limit of the current blocksize).

Because if you spread the fee over just 1620 transactions, the fee would be ridiculously high and would never be able to support the network, but if you spread it over a million transactions it will be very cheap. But you wont be able to spread the cost over a million transactions because it simply would not fit in 1 MB.

You were talking about the future, so think about the future. If bitcoin still has only 2 transactions per second on average by the time block rewards are insignificant, bitcoin has failed, and this whole discussion is pointless.

Are you really this stupid or are you just trolling?

by the way if miners dont make the rules, who do?