Quote from: AizenSou on August 20, 2015, 10:32:46 AM

Quote from: BitThink on August 20, 2015, 10:20:12 AM

Quote from: AizenSou on August 20, 2015, 10:05:42 AM

Quote from: AlexGR on August 20, 2015, 02:03:04 AM

Quote from: billyjoeallen on August 20, 2015, 01:40:58 AM

This is an attempted coup alright, but it's from idiot miners who want a bigger slice of a smaller pie. If we cave on this, they will never allow our network to become competitive enough to disrupt the banksters.

Bloating the blockchain to DOA levels will disrupt bitcoin, not the banksters.

Besides, 8mb blocks, or even 80mb blocks, aren't enough to scale to such levels. You'd need enormous storage (and bandwidth) per day to compete with the volume of banks and credit cards.

Visa does 2000 tx/s. Bitcoin needs 300-700mb/blocks to do that, not accounting for spam.

If you add mastercard, bank transfers, swift, paypal, and, finally, cash transactions from person to person that could be digitized with btc, not even 1gb blocks would scale.

Exactly. And BitcoinXT looks like an altcoin IMHO.

All Gavin fanboys are screaming: Scale or die. They just don't understand that increasing the block size is not a permanent solution. It's a quick fix.
And like every quick fix in your life, its consequence is always bad.

Quick fix is to survive. XT is a backup in case we run out of time and the perfect solution still stays on paper.

Quick fix to survive ? It's the most hilarious thing I ever heard. It might make you survive for a few months more, but then kills you much faster and more painful.

So what is your solution to the bottle neck problem?? Most small blockers don't have one.