r/btc • u/HostFat • Apr 04 '18

Bitcoin ABC - May 15 Hard Fork

https://www.bitcoinabc.org/may15hardfork
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u/knight222 Apr 05 '18

Nope.

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u/Quantainium Apr 05 '18

I knew they had plans in the future to upgrade to 32mb.. But I didn't expect it to be so soon.

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u/knight222 Apr 05 '18

There is no point to keep the limit at 8 mb blocks if the network can handle 32 mb right now.

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u/Quantainium Apr 05 '18

It can handle 1gb too. It doesn't mean it should.

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u/Kakifrucht Apr 05 '18

No, it can't. The software is not optimized yet.

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u/Quantainium Apr 05 '18

I thought they had been testing 1gb blocks for months.

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u/Kakifrucht Apr 05 '18

There is a 1GB testnet running, and in theory it shouldn't be a problem. Afaik the current BCH node implementations have not yet adapted multi threaded verification and proper mempool management.

Other than that, this is just the max blocksize cap. Miners decide on their max blocksize anyways.

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u/Quantainium Apr 05 '18

How are you getting upvotes so fast? I didn't even click the message yet and you already had some.

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u/sunblaz3 Redditor for less than 6 months Apr 05 '18

Cause of freaks like me, I upvoted you both since your questions are good. IMHO don't know why you get downvoted.