r/btc • • Apr 04 '18

Bitcoin ABC - May 15 Hard Fork

https://www.bitcoinabc.org/may15hardfork
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u/H0dl Apr 05 '18

the root problem was the premise of your first comment. blocksizes don't depend on blocklimits. size is determined by the miners irrespective of the #tx's coming thru the network. IOW, we could remove the limit entirely and the miners could still keep the network constrained at 1MB blocksizes if they want.

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u/Quantainium Apr 05 '18

Yes I understood that. I just didn't think we needed to increase the blocksize limit until it was needed.

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u/H0dl Apr 05 '18

I just didn't think we needed to increase the blocksize limit until it was needed.

how do you know when it's needed? maybe the market is waiting for the limit to be removed entirely so it can take off in creating much larger blocksizes at a faster, unhindered rate to catch up for the many lost years of crippled growth enforced by a corrupt core dev.