Quote from: poeEDgar on September 04, 2015, 06:01:38 PM

Quote from: jonald_fyookball on September 04, 2015, 05:58:26 PM

Quote from: poeEDgar on September 04, 2015, 05:28:58 PM

Quote from: jonald_fyookball on September 04, 2015, 03:16:48 AM

I understand the block limit is an anti spam measure,
but why can't miners just form their own consensus of
how big a block is acceptable? If more than 51% of the
mining power agrees a block is too big, they will ignore
it and build a longer chain.

Ask Mike Hearn why he thinks checkpoints might be necessary, just in case this happens. Tongue

I fail to see what Mike Hearn or checkpoints has to do with this conversation. Please stay on topic.

It may have been a mere quip, but it was on topic. Wink

Are you suggesting that the threshold for consensus in a hard fork be lowered to 51%?

Not necessarily. It depends what kind of change are we talking about.

What I'm hypothesizing in this thread here, is that maybe blocksize
shouldn't be a protocol rule to begin with.