Quote from: AlexGR on September 01, 2016, 01:31:42 AM

Quote from: BathSaltsDealer on August 31, 2016, 11:31:41 PM

Quote from: AlexGR on August 31, 2016, 10:50:27 PM

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Quote from: AlexGR on August 31, 2016, 10:06:02 PM

Spot the fallacy.

Blocks aren't anywhere near full now, and mempool is nearly empty. What you're suggesting doesn't happen in practice?

Even when "blocks are full" and mempool queues are several megabytes long, there are always a lot of transactions served in the near zero cost segment.

Not sure I'm following. Shouldn't the blocks be always full, due to spam transactions filling them up to capacity? Why aren't they full now?

Because some blocks are 1mb and some are less for whatever reasons the miners want.

Btw, it seems to have stabilized since May with a few spikes up and down: https://blockchain.info/charts/avg-block-size?timespan=1year

You people don't seem to get it.... you keep talking about this so much...!!! ... it is so annoying ... so let me break it to you!! ... It can be flat line at 999KB on average... for a whole year! ... Theoretically that is not really possible... Because more nodes will appear like mushrooms collecting the higher fees, and it will go and stay on average lower. And probably with the extra nodes they will just go ahead and reduce it from 1MB to 0.5MB , 0.2MB or 0.1MB ... if it makes profit for the nodes... why give back to the owners?? And this will create some kind of spiral effect... because corporations or big holders will not accept this and they will run nodes themselves in periods when they need to transfer their own stuff at a insignificant fee. It is just supply/demand... I really don't get it why people are so crazy about this.. And making the 2MB ... 5MB .. 10MB ... 100MB ... 1GB ... is not in the best interest for the little guy! The only option is just to go lower and hope technology and people take responsibility for sustaining the infrastructure. And in the end in 100-200 years after all is homogenized good, when energy and processing power will be almost free... it will become some sort of socialism and there will be almost no fees. Because everyone will donate 1%(or less) of their own for the cause as an imposition/taxation. And maybe then it will be higher.. but till then the dogs need to be fed, and in their logic more transactions the merrier. People will be forced to do less transactions, because mass scale ping-pong banking was not intended. BTCitcoin was designed for this masochistic scheme in the first place. You need to accept the suffering, that is all the point. And to stop it is just to do more with less. That's the solution!