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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Bitcoin 20MB Fork
by
R2D221
on 13/03/2015, 14:59:04 UTC
Whether the source of blockchain bloat is S.DICE, BitDNS, Counterparty, Blockstream, GavinCoins, or even (gasp!) sustained actual use, the point remains that in reaction to bloat...

...Bitcoin users might get increasingly tyrannical about limiting the size of the chain so it's easy for lots of users and small devices

So, are you saying you are getting tyrannical because Satoshi said so?

People in this thread have claimed before that taking Satoshi's word as a fact is a fallacy of authority. But you seem to be doing exactly the same with this quote.

Also, I don't see how “getting tyrannical about limiting the size” will help users with small devices. You can't have a blockchain in your cellphone. That's a fact, a fact that will never change even if you get 1 KB blocks. So what kind of “small devices” are we talking about here?

No matter the size of the blocks, you will need a properly configured server to run a full node. Most people in the world aren't capable or don't have access to the technology of running a server (as astonishing as it sounds), so limiting the block size so that a fictional set of users who somehow have the resources to run a server, but not enough resources to run it with 20 MB blocks, is nonsensical to me.