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From: Oliver Egginger <bitcoin@olivere.de>
To: Gavin Andresen <gavinandresen@gmail.com>
Cc: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Fwd: Block Size Increase Requirements
Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2015 16:46:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <556C7037.1050206@olivere.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABsx9T2aEvPs68pQA-KrtaDQFcTTtiB36eqKAcJRkiOFQr6WsA@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 3:59 PM, Gavin Andresen wrote:
> What do other people think?  Would starting at a max of 8 or 4 get
> consensus?  Scaling up a little less than Nielsen's Law of Internet
> Bandwidth predicts for the next 20 years?  (I think predictability is
> REALLY important).
> 
> I chose 20 because all of my testing shows it to be safe, and all of my
> back-of-the-envelope calculations indicate the costs are reasonable.
> 
> If consensus is "8 because more than order-of-magnitude increases are
> scary" -- ok.

It would feel better for me if you would keep the power of two:

2^0 = 1MB
2^1 = 2MB
2^2 = 4MB
2^3 = 8MB
.
.
.

But that's only personal. Maybe other people feeling the same.

- oliver



  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-06-01 14:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 73+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-07 22:02 [Bitcoin-development] Block Size Increase Requirements Matt Corallo
2015-05-07 23:24 ` Joseph Poon
2015-05-08  0:05 ` Peter Todd
2015-05-08  6:33   ` Arkady
2015-05-08 10:03 ` Mike Hearn
2015-05-08 16:37   ` Peter Todd
2015-05-08 19:47     ` Tier Nolan
2015-05-09  3:08       ` Peter Todd
2015-05-16  4:39         ` Stephen
2015-05-16 11:29           ` Tier Nolan
2015-05-16 11:25         ` Tier Nolan
2015-05-29 22:36 ` Gavin Andresen
2015-05-29 23:25   ` Matt Corallo
     [not found]     ` <CABsx9T3__mHZ_kseRg-w-x2=8v78QJLhe+BWPezv+hpbFCufpw@mail.gmail.com>
2015-05-30 19:32       ` Matt Corallo
2015-05-30 20:37         ` Gavin Andresen
2015-05-31 14:46           ` Jorge Timón
2015-05-31 14:49             ` Gavin Andresen
2015-05-31 14:59               ` Jorge Timón
2015-05-31 15:08                 ` Gavin Andresen
2015-05-31 15:45                   ` Jorge Timón
2015-05-29 23:42 ` Chun Wang
2015-05-30 13:57   ` Gavin Andresen
2015-05-30 14:08     ` Pindar Wong
2015-05-30 22:05     ` Alex Mizrahi
2015-05-30 23:16       ` Brian Hoffman
2015-05-31  0:13         ` Alex Mizrahi
2015-05-31  5:05       ` gb
     [not found]     ` <CAFzgq-z5WCznGhbOexS0XESNGAVauw45ewEV-1eMij7yDT61=Q@mail.gmail.com>
2015-05-31  1:31       ` [Bitcoin-development] Fwd: " Chun Wang
2015-05-31  2:20         ` Pindar Wong
2015-05-31 12:40         ` Gavin Andresen
2015-05-31 13:45           ` Alex Mizrahi
2015-05-31 14:54             ` Gavin Andresen
2015-05-31 22:55               ` Alex Mizrahi
2015-05-31 23:23                 ` Ricardo Filipe
2015-05-31 23:40                   ` Pindar Wong
2015-05-31 23:58                     ` Ricardo Filipe
2015-06-01  0:03                       ` Pindar Wong
2015-06-01  7:57                   ` Alex Mizrahi
2015-06-01 10:13                     ` Mike Hearn
2015-06-01 10:42                       ` Pindar Wong
2015-06-01 11:26                         ` Peter Todd
2015-06-01 12:19                           ` Pindar Wong
2015-06-01 11:02                       ` Chun Wang
2015-06-01 11:09                         ` Pindar Wong
2015-06-01 11:20                         ` Chun Wang
2015-06-01 13:59                           ` Gavin Andresen
2015-06-01 14:08                             ` Chun Wang
2015-06-01 15:33                               ` Mike Hearn
2015-06-01 16:06                                 ` Ángel José Riesgo
2015-06-01 14:46                             ` Oliver Egginger [this message]
2015-06-01 14:48                               ` Chun Wang
2015-06-01 16:43                             ` Yifu Guo
2015-06-01 20:01                             ` Roy Badami
2015-06-01 20:15                               ` Roy Badami
2015-06-01 13:21                         ` Mike Hearn
2015-06-01 12:29                       ` Warren Togami Jr.
2015-06-01 13:15                 ` Gavin Andresen
2015-05-31 12:52         ` Gavin Andresen
2015-05-31 13:31           ` [Bitcoin-development] [Bulk] " gb
2015-05-31 19:49             ` Gavin Andresen
2015-05-31 14:17           ` [Bitcoin-development] " Dave Hudson
2015-05-31 14:34         ` Yifu Guo
2015-05-31 14:47           ` Gavin Andresen
2015-05-31  7:05   ` [Bitcoin-development] " Peter Todd
2015-05-31 12:51     ` Gavin Andresen
2015-06-01 11:12 [Bitcoin-development] Fwd: " Thy Shizzle
2015-06-01 13:06 Thy Shizzle
2015-06-01 18:19 ` Warren Togami Jr.
2015-06-01 18:30   ` Mike Hearn
2015-06-01 18:44     ` Adam Back
2015-06-01 19:23   ` Btc Drak
2015-06-01 21:32 Thy Shizzle
2015-06-01 22:13 ` Pindar Wong

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