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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Estranged Core Developer Gavin Andresen Finally Makes Sensible 2MB BIP Proposal!
by
Fatman3001
on 10/02/2016, 23:01:38 UTC
But I sometimes look at more than one webpage in 10 minutes.

That's still just another single download. Think "single download vs. many uploads" and further that upload bandwidth is more limited.

10 minutes is just the target time. Sometimes valid blocks are published within seconds of one another.

It was an understatement.

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It wasn't an analogy. It was an example to show how small amount of data it is.

Not sure about that. In any case, it's an important topic to discuss since many people around here seem to think that operating a node is comparable to downloading a web page every 10 minutes. That leads to a fundamental misunderstanding of bitcoin's capacity limitations.

Reading comprehension, people! It's real important when you're trying to decode what smarter people are trying to tell you.