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From: Gavin Andresen <gavinandresen@gmail.com>
To: Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@gmail.com>
Cc: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Incorporating block validation rule modifications into the block chain
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 16:02:16 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABsx9T2RWamFxebVJExo_4NT4WPPE=Fd4deG1AFmT=GqjD=vwQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAS2fgR5=nLTBQUBzjZQs91AVw5XSTiqe-KB_T9R9wKfBrOq6Q@mail.gmail.com>

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On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 10:42 AM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@gmail.com>wrote:

>  Since, in the long run,
> Bitcoin can't meet its security and decenteralization promises without
> blockspace scarcity to drive non-trivial fees and without scaling
> limits to keep it decenteralized— it's not a change that could be made
> more lightly than changing the supply of coin.
>

I disagree with Gregory on this.  I believe that Bitcoin CAN meet its
security and decentralization promises without any hard limit on block
size.

I had a fruitful discussion about this with an economist friend this
weekend, and I'll eventually getting around to writing up why I believe
raising the block size limit will not be a problem.

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Gavin Andresen

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-02-13 21:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-12 13:49 [Bitcoin-development] Incorporating block validation rule modifications into the block chain Raph Frank
2013-02-12 15:49 ` Gregory Maxwell
2013-02-13 14:58   ` Raph Frank
2013-02-13 15:42     ` Gregory Maxwell
2013-02-13 21:02       ` Gavin Andresen [this message]
2013-02-13 21:05         ` Gregory Maxwell
2013-02-13 23:10         ` Stephen Pair
2013-02-14  0:28           ` Gregory Maxwell
2013-02-14  2:44             ` Stephen Pair
2013-02-14  3:38               ` Gregory Maxwell
2013-02-14  5:36                 ` Stephen Pair
2013-02-14  6:07               ` Peter Todd
2013-02-14 12:59                 ` Stephen Pair
2013-02-18 16:22                   ` Peter Todd
2013-02-14  1:02       ` Gregory Maxwell
2013-02-14  6:39         ` Peter Todd

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