Quote from: DooMAD on January 22, 2018, 01:51:28 PM

Quote from: Anonymous Kid on January 19, 2018, 09:04:38 PM

Let's start with a little background info...

Satoshi implemented the 1 MB blocksize limit without telling anyone; He just did it randomly. There was no discussion beforehand and after he did it, he did not mention it anywhere.

My understanding was that having a blocksize limit was Hal Finney's idea and he talked Satoshi into it after quite a bit of discussion between Satoshi, Hal Finney, Ray Dillinger and possibly others as well. Although I'm not entirely sure if setting that limit at 1MB was Hal's decision too, or if that was someone else's input. But suffice to say it wasn't just Satoshi acting alone. In the early days, it's likely quite a few conversations were had via email, so we don't have reliable records of exactly what happened.

Yes. And it happened at a time, where there was absolutely 0 fees and only a few txs.
The idea was coming from excluding a sheer brute zero cost spam attack, bloating the blockchain for free and crashing / eliminating bitcoin before it could take off. Very reasonable for an open blockchain in a open hacker world that time, handwaving the no-brainer to lift it as 'needed'.