Quote from: knightdk on December 17, 2015, 06:41:05 PM

Quote from: RealBitcoin on December 17, 2015, 05:10:51 PM

Quote from: mezzomix on December 17, 2015, 04:37:18 PM

Quote from: RealBitcoin on December 17, 2015, 03:34:14 PM

Dude, the 8 MB limit is not each and ever block. If the cap is 8mb, and the current block size is 0.5 mb , then 0.5 mb blocks will circulate. The 8mb block is only the cap limit, not the default size.

There's no problem with 8MB blocks but do you have a way to deal with stress testers? Do you know how make their tests more expensive? Higher dust limit and Higher fees?

Maybe we should go to 2MB first which is a 100% increase.

Stress testers? Disable 0 bitcoin fees. If they want to test, pay for it.

A stress test is the same as regular transaction. Pay and then they can send as many TX they want.

0 bitcoin fee should be disabled at protocol level. Minimum should be at least 1000 satoshi.

There is a minimum, not at protocol level but at the node level which is set by default to 0.00005. Any fee under that is not relayed by the node.

Also, the stress tests do not send transactions with 0 fees. They always send with enough fees.

This is an important point - they are paying fees for the majority of the stress tests. Eventually they will run out of bitcoins to use for the stress test and will have to buy on the open market. The so-called stress tests are not costless so can't continue indefinitely without driving up the fiat value of bitcoin.