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Re: How a floating blocksize limit inevitably leads towards centralization
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justusranvier
on 19/02/2013, 01:11:25 UTC
However, with no limit on block size, it effectively becomes miners who are in control of _everyone_'s block size. As a non-miner, this is not something I want them to decide for me. Perhaps the tragedy of the commons can be avoided, and long-term rational thinking will kick in, and miners can be trusted with choosing an appropriate block size. But maybe not, and if just one miner starts creating gigabyte blocks, while all the rest agrees on 10 MiB blocks, ugly block-shunning rules will be necessary to avoid such blocks from filling everyone's hard drive (yes, larger block's slower relay will make them unlikely to be accepted, but it just requires one lucky fool to succeed...).
In a different thread Gavin proposed removing the hard limit on block size and adding code to the nodes that would reject any blocks that take too long to verify.

That would give control over the size of the blocks to the people who run full nodes.