This max block size is still a hot discussion but I think we also need to talk about min block size. We see a lot of blocks found with only 1 transaction in it, mostly these are coming from Chinese pools.
+1 for 2 MB or even more block size and we should do something for empty blocks.
Just throwing this out there: Empty blocks aren't going away with Classic. Gavin actually wrote SPV mining into the software, to make
all miners engage in non-validating mining, rather than just the [Chinese] pools we know about. He tried to code in some node-enforced 30-second time limit on it, but current miner code is already patched to ignore such limits, and they can just patch it again to maximize their chances of finding a block without validating the prior.