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The 1 MB block size debate has been a constant issue for months, with Andresen and Mike Hearn discussing the need to upgrade the block size to as much as 20 MB.
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Not months; Years. The same dire predictions of impending disaster are not new either and have accompanied each one of these pushes.
Hearn has lobbied for essentially unlimited capacity as long as I can remember. The 2011/2012 timeframe at least. Tainting also. Though it is not totally fair to characterize his lobbying as 'for', it is certainly fair to say that it was not 'against'. Tainting and industrial level infrastructure are joined at the hip in some ways.