Dear Gavin

Thanks for your reply.  When I said “Safer” I meant the risk that average bandwidth speeds grow less than historic rates in the future. I totally agree with you saying that reducing the block size limit would only be a soft fork, rather than the hard fork of increasing the limit, I hadn’t thought of that.  I guess you could be right, maybe the best option is to follow trends.


This is a good point, however what about all the people like Andreas Antonopoulos, who constantly say things like, “Bitcoin is not a faster, cheaper more efficient way of shopping, thinking of it this way misses the point, its more than that, it’s a distributed platform for open, permissionless, trustless, blah blah blah…… innovation.”
This is also an interesting point of view and I think it would be good to somehow find a balance between this and faster cheaper transactions.  But I think you are right, somehow the block size limit needs to increase.
 
Yes I admit I was being lazy by saying doubling.  A normal home internet connection can easily keep up, however is there not a potential danger of block propagation times becoming larger, which also needs to be considered, at least now when IBLT hasn’t been “fully” implemented?