Quote from: gmaxwell on June 21, 2016, 07:05:29 AM

Quote from: MicroGuy on June 21, 2016, 01:43:33 AM

doesn't say anything about a 1MB block size in the Bitcoin whitepaper. Changing it to 2 MB (like we did) does not change the protocol

The whitepaper doesn't say anything about 21 million coins-- or a great many other very important consensus rules. If the rule was intended to _simply_ be temporary it could have had an automatic phase out, but it didn't. If it was intended to go up as it filled, it could have-- just as difficulty adjusts, the mechanism is all there.

Out of curiosity, would you be willing to state your personal opinion on under what conditions it would be appropriate and/or beneficial to raise the blocksize limit? What particular concerns, technical or otherwise, do you consider most important when it comes to considering alterations to this particular aspect of the system? Of course, blocksize is only one aspect of capacity (and a horribly inefficient method of scaling capacity), but I'm curious if there are any particular conditions under which you feel raising the blocksize would be the appropriate solution. Is it only a last-resort method of increasing capacity? And when it comes to capacity, to what extent should it be increased? Is, "infinite", capacity even something we should be targetting?

It is my understanding that Core's implementation of segwit will also include an overall, "blocksize", increase (between both the witness and transaction blocks), though with a few scalability improvements that should make the increase less demanding on the system (linear verification scaling with segwit and Compactblocks come to mind). Do you personally support this particular instance of increasing the overall, "blocksize"?

To be clear, I'm just asking as someone who'd like to hear your informed opinion. In the short-term I'm not exactly worried about transaction capacity--certainly not hardfork worried--as with segwit on the way and the potential for LN or similar mechanisms to follow, short-term capacity issues could well be on their way out (really all I want short-term is an easier way to flag and use RBF so I can fix my fees during unexpected volume spikes). What I'm more curious about at this point are your views on the long-term--the, "133MB infinite transactions", stage.

Of course, you're free to keep your opinions to yourself or only answer as much as you're comfortable divulging; it's not my intent to have you say anything that would encourage people to sling even more shit at you than they already have been lately Undecided