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Re: Last Time. In small words. Why 2MB impossible. Why Soft Fork. Why SegWit First..
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anonymoustroll420
on 02/05/2017, 10:50:38 UTC
5tx's of 16k sigops thats about 40 minute validation delays.

Can't fit that many sigops in a 1MB block.

It's interesting that 1MB is the biggest size you can have without it being quadratically spammy (over 10 minutes to validate). Satoshi picked a good limit.