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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: The MAX_BLOCK_SIZE fork
by
mrvision
on 06/02/2013, 18:20:33 UTC
eventually this will drive us to a fractional reserve system again.

There's nothing wrong with a fractional reserve system, just look at systems of self-issued credit (like Ripple). The problem is with legal tender laws that force you to use a particular debt instrument. With voluntary exchange, competition between systems would keep them honest.


Well indeed there is a problem if the only option you have is to use a fractional reserve system because the hard limit of 1mb. Specially if the 'bank' cannot give you back your bitcoins because everybody else has withdrawn theirs for whatever reason Cheesy