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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Bitcoin 20MB Fork
by
davout
on 17/03/2015, 12:48:18 UTC
If wumpus thinks blocks should be full, then I'd like to see his reasoning.  Gavin has outlined his stance with his blocksize economics and scalability roadmap posts.  A continuous stream of full blocks isn't something we've tried before and we need to see a really convincing argument to justify attempting it.

Gavin gets it wrong. Big deal.
You know, there's a reason in business, why it's usually not the code-monkeys who get to make strategic decisions.


So far no one has given me a satisfactory response to this:

If the userbase increases and blocks are full, the choices are as follows:

  • Pay an average fee and still wait for the next available block that isn't full (which will take longer and longer as more users join, even if you pay a fee)
  • Pay an above-average fee and hope that it's more than everyone else is paying (and if you don't guess correctly, wait for the next block)
  • Go off chain and hope that whoever you trusted doesn't run off with the coins
  • Use another coin

Maybe if you actually phrased it like a question it'd be easier to answer.
And it would certainly be easier for the one who answers to show that the assumptions the question is based on, are flawed.