Quote from: d5000 on February 16, 2017, 03:58:04 PM

As I was told by small-block supporters, upstream bandwidth is equally important than downstream for the Bitcoin network to work well and so it is the real bottleneck for the Bitcoin block size.

So-called 'small block supporters'* have an annoying habit of switching to some other argument when asked to provide evidence supporting their previous argument.

* The SegWit Omnibus Changeset allows blocks as large as 4MB.

And their claims are often half-truths that lead to agreement from the great unwashed, despite irrelevancy.

Case in point: of course upstream bandwidth is important. I don't think anyone disputes this. But what evidence suggests that upstream bandwidth is either a constraint today, or the upstream bandwidth will become a constraint tomorrow?

In an era where bandwidth providers are aggressively building out to accommodate full-rate 4K video bandwidth to every home, bitcoin node traffic -- even if it were to be to every home -- is negligible.