increasing the blocksize up to the point that our technology will allow so that it does not compromise the principles of decentralization and financial freedom.
We are already well past this point, as many people have stopped running nodes because they couldn't justify the expense and the inconvenience of having their connection seriously burdened.
Now the question is not compromising these principles much more, because past 200KB or so they are already compromised.
Let's not even question this again because it's well known by now.
I disagree and we have discussed this extensively already so maybe we can just agree to disagree.
Obviously I do not support your extremist position that blocks over 200KB are to large. I think that Bitcoin can support much larger blocks without compromising decentralization and financial freedom.
It's not a matter of agreement, a lot of people have stopped running their nodes for these reasons and there is overwhelming evidence of this fact.
We are not conjecturing about whether they will stop or not, this already happens, I know many cases myself and they are all over the place in this forum and reddit.
Ask people who stopped running their nodes why the did they stop.
These are facts to deal with, not to agree or disagree.
I could say that there is overwhelming evidence to support what I am saying as well. Though that does not change your position does it. Stop pretending as if your position is the absolute truth based on factual evidence while saying that my position has absolutely no merit. Ridiculing my position to increase the blocksize as if I am some sort of mad man. When very reasonable and well informed people like Andreas Antonopoulos also support this position.
Gavin is right. The time to increase the block size limit is before transaction processing shows congestion problems. Discuss now, do soon.
You are coming across like a propagandist with your extremist position. This is not productive for constructive dialogue. Stating that your position is one of fact and that nobody should be able to disagree with you is false, since this question depends on our understanding of the technicalities of Bitcoin combined with our subjective ideologies, our subjective ideologies which include the concepts of decentralization and financial freedom are not in the realm of fact but are products of our subjective ideologies instead.
I can tell you that I have absolutely no problems running my full node and neither do the people around me. So my life and my experience and that of the people around me does serve as a counterfactual to what you are saying. Of course some people will not be able to run full nodes forever but we should not expect them to especially when the sacrifice that this would require would be to great. With sacrifice I am referring to limiting the amount of people that can use Bitcoin.