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Hopefully, blocks will be a bit bigger by then
Block size again? Recent article about it: https://blog.lopp.net/treatise-bitcoin-block-space-economics/
It is a cycle. By increasing the block size, you are prolonging things, instead of solving the problem.
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As a computer scientist I'm painfully aware that despite hardware continually getting faster, software seems to be getting slower.
I saw many times, that it is true. And it is definitely true in case of Initial Blockchain Download. Or rather: Initial Blockchain Validation, because even if you can download things quite quickly, then still, validating all of that takes most of the time (and it takes longer and longer, because there is more and more data to validate).Also, as you can go through the article, you can see old BIPs about it. Even if you think, that blocks should be bigger, then which BIP you want to activate? Even if you rewrite them from hard-forks into soft-forks, then still, by seeing, what was proposed so far, none of them sounds like something, where you could reach consensus.
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Hopefully, blocks will be a bit bigger by then
Block size again? Recent article about it: https://blog.lopp.net/treatise-bitcoin-block-space-economics/It is a cycle. By increasing the block size, you are prolonging things, instead of solving the problem.
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As a computer scientist I'm painfully aware that despite hardware continually getting faster, software seems to be getting slower.
I saw many times, that it is true. And it is definitely true in case of Initial Blockchain Download. Or rather: Initial Blockchain Validation, because even if you can download things quite quickly, then still, validating all of that takes most of the time (and it takes longer and longer, because there is more and more data to validate).Also, as you can go through the article, you can see old BIPs about it. Even if you think, that blocks should be bigger, then which BIP you want to activate? Even if you rewrite them from hard-forks into soft-forks, then still, by seeing, what was proposed so far, none of them sounds like something, where you could reach consensus.