1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
|
Return-Path: <tomh@thinlink.com>
Received: from smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (smtp1.linux-foundation.org
[172.17.192.35])
by mail.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A4E3C8CE
for <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>;
Thu, 6 Aug 2015 16:19:16 +0000 (UTC)
X-Greylist: whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6
Received: from mail-pa0-f52.google.com (mail-pa0-f52.google.com
[209.85.220.52])
by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 538321FB
for <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>;
Thu, 6 Aug 2015 16:19:16 +0000 (UTC)
Received: by pabyb7 with SMTP id yb7so34036372pab.0
for <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>;
Thu, 06 Aug 2015 09:19:16 -0700 (PDT)
X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed;
d=1e100.net; s=20130820;
h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date
:user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type
:content-transfer-encoding;
bh=f4X/TD8watkzktENRP7S8AlGcn9g46PuAd97a1U4/wA=;
b=QFJKMTJI9mVKb70GZL6Irysh4cZmhdgKBZlCDzZb15rvLRDFOD+fjYQSK3+sTjrzu3
MbULVTumQ/wVCocnuDRZnnH0RJQWTCH73GZ/dqHpH0bzIag0xldX+/TopCZZB2OoYtI6
4xIUXl4o2r7uLr4w6Ez/YJ6KF5WKKg6u37KBp93kaft+v7ySqooeceYiCQfcP/ZrXX6i
UaEhFIolXP4uW2DjVHK/uR2VOJXlYZlhHoyj0/ozVs0gkkF9U9XJIEguXbgUUoc/Vq74
qfqYpuUG2M/cix+OTpag1uoZALt9Cd0gvxwohYYIoqqT2+ZX8lnzL5LWXZvkdmMjfBUf
SMJg==
X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQlgQA/uvi5+L+fCr4+kdH+PFKR46ZoXrF1FNq4TMy+42Pguf8Qkax+3oMYWsPs8coCnocTQ
X-Received: by 10.68.252.225 with SMTP id zv1mr4798887pbc.45.1438877956039;
Thu, 06 Aug 2015 09:19:16 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from [192.168.1.89] (99-8-65-117.lightspeed.davlca.sbcglobal.net.
[99.8.65.117]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id
fj6sm7076908pdb.21.2015.08.06.09.19.13
for <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
(version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128);
Thu, 06 Aug 2015 09:19:14 -0700 (PDT)
To: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org
References: <CAPg+sBj-wA1DMrwkQRWnzQoB5NR-q=2-5=WDAAUYfSpXRZSTqw@mail.gmail.com>
<CABm2gDqvpWdHdjo1OBzbw-6ivu5DEGcfvK8duc3-KAjsSeWapA@mail.gmail.com>
<CA+w+GKRPPcgCO0pBP2PjKGU49tWuBoF1vRJzY+4fWn71HOVDPw@mail.gmail.com>
<CABm2gDqV1NdHJZBmUWX3AxVYy6ErU7AB-wsWgGzbiTL1twdq6g@mail.gmail.com>
<CA+w+GKTLBWj6b4ppwrmnXb_gybYFcrX7haLBSdCnMaijy2An4w@mail.gmail.com>
<CABm2gDpWPhYNh=g-ZXCsfe-aPq=N6NKSWKP9kr-KtPVrWAxB7Q@mail.gmail.com>
<CAAO2FKHsczkwwqO87cJFtxBp9JE=vf=GcxLx37GpRUkPq8VGHQ@mail.gmail.com>
<CABm2gDpp5+hkHmd6op6PPW658siKoEMRDfTWiEHHM7vJSLDhyA@mail.gmail.com>
<CA+BnGuFNOjzLaiPPnUSi-rkU94UMgmP30Si8N3oBSYG0q8j-_w@mail.gmail.com>
<CABm2gDoNbhc1=kgc0F+wSm33hTmRmmptk-XcaZxsm=6iJkWu=w@mail.gmail.com>
<CABsx9T22KUcbRb4ZfRDikbxK05pqWY1=uvYo10toWA-JwGa-PQ@mail.gmail.com>
<CAPg+sBg-KN5=A5_Fx3fo0dcD6mAdMUXBMNzW52SkQsRbADTmSg@mail.gmail.com>
<CABsx9T0QP3bmUkOSaD9X7zhcV3BNwT3xFZcsZnk+JL5oz-EfsA@mail.gmail.com>
<CAPg+sBi-Ls3Kuk=KE5EApqCh8amkGTUEs9a-jh--vVXs4PtxCQ@mail.gmail.com>
From: Tom Harding <tomh@thinlink.com>
X-Enigmail-Draft-Status: N1110
Message-ID: <55C38901.8090608@thinlink.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2015 09:19:13 -0700
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101
Thunderbird/38.1.0
MIME-Version: 1.0
In-Reply-To: <CAPg+sBi-Ls3Kuk=KE5EApqCh8amkGTUEs9a-jh--vVXs4PtxCQ@mail.gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW
autolearn=ham version=3.3.1
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on
smtp1.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Block size following technological growth
X-BeenThere: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12
Precedence: list
List-Id: Bitcoin Development Discussion <bitcoin-dev.lists.linuxfoundation.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/options/bitcoin-dev>,
<mailto:bitcoin-dev-request@lists.linuxfoundation.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/>
List-Post: <mailto:bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
List-Help: <mailto:bitcoin-dev-request@lists.linuxfoundation.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev>,
<mailto:bitcoin-dev-request@lists.linuxfoundation.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2015 16:19:16 -0000
On 8/6/2015 7:53 AM, Pieter Wuille via bitcoin-dev wrote:
>
> So if we would have 8 MB blocks, and there is a sudden influx of users
> (or settlement systems, who serve much more users) who want to pay
> high fees (let's say 20 transactions per second) making the block
> chain inaccessible for low fee transactions, and unreliable for medium
> fee transactions (for any value of low, medium, and high), would you
> be ok with that?
Gavin has answered this question in the clearest way possible -- in
tested C++ code, which increases capacity only on a precise schedule for
20 years, then stops increasing.
|
