Quote from: Lauda on September 21, 2016, 09:46:14 PM

Quote from: zimmah on September 21, 2016, 09:43:49 PM

Other than a mindless fearr of a hard fork, give me 1 solid reason based on logic against a block size increase.

1) Security risk of a DOS due to quadratic validation problem.
2) No hard fork experience.
3) High risk of damaging merchants and businesses that do not manage to update in time (if the activation parameters are improper such as with Bitcoin Classic).
4) Higher storage cost.
5) Higher bandwidth cost.

Even if we disregard the 4 latter, the primary issue is still the security risk.

core releasing a 2mb+segwit CONSENSUS version =
1) no quadratics because its 2mb base 4mb weight + all the segwit features including linear validation
2) core make it, so they have experience (unless you now deny their capability(lets see you back track))
3) consensus has long enough time to attain 95% meaning merchants are probably first to vote and be in that 95%. then a grace period, so no problems. merchants care more then anyone about ensuring they have upto date code. they wont be stuck running version 0.10(they already at 0.12 and moving to 0.13)
4)2TB hard drive is not a billion dollars. wake up.
5)hang on.. core proposes 4mb for all their features.. refer to my point 1.. 4mb is still 4mb which we both know is acceptable

wake up lauda stop with the twisted mindset to scare people