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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: Please do not change MAX_BLOCK_SIZE
by
ShadowOfHarbringer
on 04/06/2013, 13:21:40 UTC
I actually was under the impression that we are libertarians here and we should push for any solution that decreases centralization.

No block size limit = free market decides the proper size

You mean the 3 people controlling the pools that have the majority of hashing power control the blocksize.

Actually, no. Individual miners have freedom to choose a pool which suits their interests better or simply use the P2P pool.

OR start a new pool and convince enough people to use it.

Indeed you can, but you've moved away from the standard Bitcoin model where we hold miners hostage

Well perhaps there could be a configuration settings in the normal(non-miners) clients for that too.

So then we could threaten miners that we won't accept/relay/confirm their blocks if they don't comply with our demands.