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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: [POLL] Possible scaling compromise: BIP 141 + BIP 102 (Segwit + 2MB)
by
Searing
on 25/03/2017, 09:22:11 UTC
Hashing power:
40% for BU
30% for SW
30% undecided.
But.
BIP168 is coming, so lets look on nodes:
90% Core
10% BU
Lets guess, what will happen when 168 activate in November?

If 168 is USER activated soft fork, and majority of USERS want cheap and fast transactions ON CHAIN, is IS possible to make UAHF and raise block size.
I know, that scaling on chain is impossible, bus as I mention earlier - segwit goodies need time to be up and running, block size works instantly.

@Lauda, blocks are NOT verified as whole at one time. Maybe you forget, that every transaction that is received by node is verified on delivery. New block is announced as header (one hash to verify POW) and hashes of transactions included in it - node just need to verify gentx and pull/verify only MISSING transactions. In other words: if node is online and collecting transactions, even 15MB block can be verified in second, because node know and have verified transactions from block.


So is it likely bitcoin core will pass the above (ie done deal) or will there be controversy within bitcoin core itself on pulling the trigger on such?

(likely not..just not keeping up with all this ..figured quicker to just ask for views)

edit: by pass I mean of course bitcoin core puts it out there as something to activate by the users as you state above.