Quote from: ktorn on June 02, 2015, 02:46:21 AM

Here's a crazy hypothesis:

Maybe Gavin realised where we're headed and didn't like what he saw.

With proposals like the Bitcoin Lightning Network the blockchain could one day only be used for a handful transactions per day, for settling big balances between major offchain micropayment processors.

Maybe he didn't like that idea and is trying to scale the blockchain to avoid it becoming redundant.

If that was to be the case, then the detractors who claim bigger blocks will centralise the network don't realize that it's actually a potential fix for avoiding even bigger centralised offchain silos.

Where is the problem with using the blockchain only for such settlement? Would be prefectly fine as long as everyone keeps the full access we have now so you can use the offchain stuff but you don't have to. You can still send your coins around on chain. Where's the problem to have all the dust transactions off chain?
Bitcoin is here to fuck the banks into the ass necessarily not to buy you coffee at starbucks. You can buy your coffee off chain or just pay a little higher fees if you want your coffee on chain. No problem there. Decentralisation, consensus and defensibility is more important than max txs.

I also found the argument compelling by one of the other devs that the problem is not urgent and until it could potentially become an issue there would be some more time left to potentially develop better solutions than just bloating the thing up (which is also no permanent fix).
So it's no problem now and until it is maybe better solutions become available.

Right now it's better to stay on 1MB blocks than to risk blowing the deam thing up because the consensus was harmed.

People need to understand Bitcoin is worthless without consensus and decentralisation aswell as defensibiltiy.
Max txs are secondary order of importance and not primary.

Quote from: MicroGuy on June 02, 2015, 02:48:43 AM

I think Gavin operates by asking himself, "what would Satoshi do?" Making 20MB blocks is his best guess as to what Bitcoin's creator would have done.

Yeah, and other people ask themselves "what would mohamet/jesus do?" before they go and kill people.
Thats no excuse. Satoshi certainly wouldn't fork the network into two coins and also not cause this whole PR fiasco. Satoshi would also not make backroom deals behind everyones back like Gavin and then come out with his altcoin.
Gavin is much more of a pig than you might think.