Quote from: smith coins on January 16, 2016, 02:04:29 PM

Quote from: SamusNi on January 16, 2016, 01:59:15 PM

Quote from: CIYAM on January 16, 2016, 01:49:58 PM

Quote from: SamusNi on January 16, 2016, 01:47:23 PM

instead of all of this discussions to increase the block size, why don't we just compress the blocks, leaving the size as it is?

Blocks consist of transactions that for the most part are effectively random numbers (such as hashes, public keys and signatures) so they simply won't compress much at all (as you can't in any sensibly usable way compress random information).

The efforts that are going on behind the scenes will make a much bigger difference than any tiny percent you could compress the content of a block.

Are you sure about that? Wouldn't something like gzip applied to the blocks reduce their size by like 99%?

Which efforts are going on behind the scenes exactly?

I don't know how the network will work after compressing but 7zip is more efficient than gzip

7zip is rarely found on *nix systems. Available, sure, but rarely found. bzip2 or xz is more common better alternatives.

moot anyway though since compression isn't the issue.