Quote from: Richy_T on January 18, 2016, 09:08:39 PM

Quote from: JayJuanGee on January 18, 2016, 08:37:36 PM

Do you really believe those chart buddy numbers? I mean really, if you look at Blockchain.info, you get spikes between 45% and 75%, but currently, the average is around 60%.

I can give you the code and you can run this shit yourself. It's all really trivial calls and standard "how to calculate averages" stuff.

I am not attempting to accuse you of any purposeful misrepresentation, but I do understand that empty blocks are not being counted in the chart buddy's renditions of how full are the blocks on an hourly basis.

Accordingly, leaving out blocks (whether a more accurate representation or not) could be the reason that blockchain.info is coming up with different numbers..

Like i mentioned, blockchain.info has been recently mostly ranging in the 45% to 75% territory... with more common averages around 60%. My expressions of skepticism regarding how full are the blocks results in my ongoing assertion that the imminence of fullblockalypse seems to be a bit exaggerated by a lot of folks.. and intentions sometimes seem a bit questionable to be engaging in such exaggerations.....

On an ongoing basis, I am reading various exaggerated accounts regarding how important it is to scale up.. etc . etc. etc. and those exaggerations cause me to be even more skeptical about what is being represented. Also, I have been hearing that transaction fees are going through the roof, and I made a couple of transfers in recent weeks of more than 10BTC, and on each occasion, my fees were about .0002BTC, which was about $.07 to $.09, depending on the then BTC price. I hardly recognize those fees as exorbitant, even though they may be a bit higher than previous fees that I had paid in some of my earlier moving around of my bitcoins.