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I bet he didn't see the 1MB anti spam limit being turned into a centrally determined economic policy tool
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Well, he definitely saw it being a centrally controlled tool, but he saw himself as that central control. In response to J. Garzik publishing a fork with a larger maxblocksize limit in October 2010 he said:
Don't use this patch, it'll make you incompatible with the network, to your own detriment.
We can phase in a change later if we get closer to needing it.
It can be phased in, like:
if (blocknumber > 115000)
maxblocksize = largerlimit
It can start being in versions way ahead, so by the time it reaches that block number and goes into effect, the older versions that don't have it are already obsolete.
When we're near the cutoff block number, I can put an alert to old versions to make sure they know they have to upgrade.
(bold emphasis added by me)He didn't give any indication who should be in charge of that central control when he left.