Re: blocksize solution: longest chain decides

The hardcoding of a blocksize is part of consensus just as they are running the same codebase overall. I question the wisdom of making that part of the code at all. However, it seems that having no limit could be problematic, and as Panther pointed out, miners do want some predictability, which is why I'm liking Bip100 more. Do you know if Jeff Garzik ever considered making it a 51% vote?

Sickpig suggested that the block size limit was a transport layer constraint that crept into the consensus layer. I agree. I don't think we really need a protocol enforced limit because:

1. There is a significant economic cost to producing large spam blocks as an attack.

2. There is a physical limitation to how large a block can be (due to bandwidth and other constraints).

3. The miners can enforce an effective limit anyways.

BIP100 seems redundant (and dangerous if it's not based on majority votes). Let's get rid of the limit and let the miners sort it out.

Ok cool. Let's.

Is there a BIP for this?

If not, can we create one?

bitcoin no limit! fuck ya! miners would simply always include some maximum amount of TX to make sure other miners accept it and keep mining on top of it.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bitcoin_Improvement_Proposals

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