Quote from: jbreher on December 31, 2015, 06:43:03 PM

Quote from: johnyj on December 31, 2015, 05:48:37 PM

Bitfury's paper here:

http://bitfury.com/content/4-white-papers-research/block-size-1.1.1.pdf

Based on his estimation, raise the block size to 4MB will drop 75% of nodes from the network

Thanks for the link. I'll read it in its entirety.

Yeah. Back from reading it. The conclusion you quote is completely based upon RAM demands. The RAM per node assumptions hinge completely upon a survey of machines running Steam. Other than to reiterate how absurd this appears to me, I shall refrain from further comment.

Well, after adding this... I can see the motivation for using Steam figures. They are publicly available, and form a fairly broad sampling. As such, they are an easy thing to cling to. However, they are a sampling only of a completely unrelated user base. Pity I've not been able to locate absolute numbers in Steam's data set. Any guesses as to whether or not the raw number behind the 15.8% of their Win user base that has 12 GiB or more completely dwarfs the 5555 or so full Bitcoin nodes?