Quote from: adamstgBit on March 09, 2016, 08:46:07 PM

Quote from: AlexGR on March 09, 2016, 08:43:32 PM

Quote from: adamstgBit on March 09, 2016, 08:27:48 PM

Quote from: AlexGR on March 09, 2016, 08:23:23 PM

Quote from: adamstgBit on March 09, 2016, 08:16:27 PM

Quote from: AlexGR on March 09, 2016, 07:53:42 PM

Blocks full = 130mb+ per day (theoretical max 144mb).

look at the mem pool Alex, the answers you seek are in the mem pool.

The mempool will continue to have backlogs even with 10mb or 1gb blocks, if there is zero or near-zero cost to broadcast gigabytes of txs.

If miners are clearing them out by including them into the blocks => blockchain bloat.
If they don't => mempool bloat (much better and controlled situation compared to blockchain bloat).

i give up

you keep believing that on avg blocks are only 50-75% full

This is not a religious issue to involve "beliefs".

All blocks added today and yesterday (including the 1mb one that got orphaned on 401626), divided by their count.

Block data from:

https://blockchain.info/blocks/1457468990441 March 8 - avg 682kb
https://blockchain.info/blocks/1457555390441 March 9 - avg 766kb

0.21KB blocks in there... did the mem pool backlog get cleared for a second?

Actually I counted up to block 401913, so the 0mb block (two blocks later) wasn't in the March 9 average. The next two drop the avg down to 762.