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Re: Permanently keeping the 1MB (anti-spam) restriction is a great idea ...
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molecular
on 25/02/2025, 04:57:30 UTC
⭐ Merited by ABCbits (3)
For what it's worth: 

I'm the guy who went over the blockchain stuff in Satoshi's first cut of the bitcoin code.  Satoshi didn't have a 1MB limit in it. The limit was originally Hal Finney's idea.  Both Satoshi and I objected that it wouldn't scale at 1MB.  Hal was concerned about a potential DoS attack though, and after discussion, Satoshi agreed.  The 1MB limit was there by the time Bitcoin launched.  But all 3 of us agreed that 1MB had to be temporary because it would never scale.

The bolded part (bolded by me) is simply not true.

Why you would assert such a thing I can only speculate (but wont). Maybe you can explain yourself?

The blocksize limit was introduced on July 15th 2010 in this commit: https://sourceforge.net/p/bitcoin/code/103#diff-3

The 1MB limit certainly wasn't there "by the time Bitcoin launched" unless you mean something other than the first block being mined.