Re: What are the downsides to 8MB blocks?

Quote from: shorena on August 12, 2015, 10:56:40 AM

Quote from: Kazimir on August 12, 2015, 10:15:26 AM

8MB per 10 minutes is about 13.6 KB/s. What was the problem again?

Not that I think that simply increasing the block size limit to 8MB is a good solution (I'd rather see something more dynamic) but if 13.6 KB/s is actually a problem, maybe you should fix your internet, rather than debate over Bitcoin.

Miners cant wait 10 minutes to have their newly mined block trasfered to the next node.

What do you mean with that? Miners can propagate really fast. An there is a project, i'm not sure anymore what it's name was, that was created to propagate blocks faster. And they get >50% in 2 seconds or so when using that network. My numbers might be wrong but it was so fast that creating 1 transaction blocks made no real sense.