From: Gavin Andresen <gavinandresen@gmail.com>
To: Pieter Wuille <pieter.wuille@gmail.com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Fwd: Block size following technological growth
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2015 13:50:00 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABsx9T3kwATCovg2FeamNPdJbhM_ypJEd_6fcwfknYsKCBQkbQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 12:30 PM, Pieter Wuille via bitcoin-dev <
bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> If the incentives for running a node don't weight up against the
> cost/difficulty using a full node yourself for a majority of people in the
> ecosystem, I would argue that there is a problem. As Bitcoin's fundamental
> improvement over other systems is the lack of need for trust, I believe
> that with increased adoption should also come an increased (in absolute
> terms) incentive for people to use a full node. I'm seeing the opposite
> trend, and that is worrying IMHO.
Are you saying that unless the majority of people in the ecosystem decide
to trust nothing but the genesis block hash (decide to run a full node)
there is a problem?
If so, then we do have a fundamental difference of opinion, but I've
misunderstood how you think about trust/centralization/convenience
tradeoffs in the past.
I believe people in the Bitcoin ecosystem will choose different tradeoffs,
and I believe that is OK-- people should be free to make those tradeoffs.
And given that the majority of people in the ecosystem were deciding that
using a centralized service or an SPV-level-security wallet was better even
two or three years ago when blocks were tiny (I'd have to go back and dig
up number-of-full-nodes and number-of-active-wallets at the big web-wallet
providers, but I bet there were an order of magnitude more people using
centralized services than running full nodes even back then), I firmly
believe that block size has very little to do with the decision to run a
full node or not.
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Gavin Andresen
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2015-07-30 14:25 [bitcoin-dev] Block size following technological growth Pieter Wuille
2015-07-30 15:04 ` Greg Sanders
2015-07-30 15:12 ` Jorge Timón
2015-07-30 16:23 ` Jameson Lopp
2015-07-30 16:36 ` Bryan Bishop
2015-07-30 16:43 ` Jameson Lopp
2015-07-30 16:36 ` Venzen Khaosan
2015-07-30 17:51 ` Jorge Timón
2015-07-30 18:00 ` Jorge Timón
2015-07-30 16:56 ` Gary Mulder
2015-07-30 17:13 ` Mark Friedenbach
2015-07-30 16:20 ` Gavin Andresen
2015-07-30 16:41 ` Suhas Daftuar
2015-07-30 16:48 ` Adam Back
2015-07-30 16:49 ` Pieter Wuille
2015-07-31 10:16 ` Mike Hearn
2015-07-31 11:43 ` Venzen Khaosan
2015-07-31 11:51 ` Jorge Timón
2015-07-31 12:15 ` Mike Hearn
2015-07-31 13:07 ` Marcel Jamin
2015-07-31 14:33 ` Jorge Timón
2015-07-31 14:58 ` Mike Hearn
2015-07-31 15:28 ` Venzen Khaosan
2015-07-31 20:09 ` Elliot Olds
2015-08-04 10:35 ` Jorge Timón
2015-08-04 11:04 ` Hector Chu
2015-08-04 11:27 ` Pieter Wuille
2015-08-04 11:34 ` Hector Chu
2015-08-04 12:10 ` Venzen Khaosan
2015-08-04 13:13 ` Jorge Timón
2015-08-04 13:28 ` Hector Chu
2015-08-04 13:42 ` Venzen Khaosan
2015-08-04 17:59 ` Jorge Timón
2015-08-04 13:12 ` Gavin Andresen
2015-08-04 13:54 ` Pieter Wuille
2015-08-04 14:30 ` Venzen Khaosan
2015-08-04 14:43 ` [bitcoin-dev] Fwd: " Venzen Khaosan
2015-08-04 14:45 ` [bitcoin-dev] " Alex Morcos
2015-08-05 8:14 ` Gareth Williams
2015-08-04 11:59 ` Jorge Timón
2015-08-04 12:19 ` Hector Chu
2015-08-04 13:34 ` Venzen Khaosan
2015-08-04 13:37 ` Jorge Timón
2015-08-05 7:29 ` Elliot Olds
2015-08-06 1:26 ` Jorge Timón
2015-08-06 13:40 ` Gavin Andresen
2015-08-06 14:06 ` Pieter Wuille
2015-08-06 14:21 ` Gavin Andresen
2015-08-06 14:53 ` Pieter Wuille
[not found] ` <CABsx9T0B2bZrFHxYR_QNwBmxskQx31zt=QE5BJAYjcOo7wbo3A@mail.gmail.com>
2015-08-06 15:24 ` [bitcoin-dev] Fwd: " Gavin Andresen
2015-08-06 15:26 ` Pieter Wuille
2015-08-06 18:43 ` Michael Naber
2015-08-06 18:52 ` Pieter Wuille
2015-08-07 16:06 ` Thomas Zander
2015-08-07 16:30 ` Pieter Wuille
2015-08-07 17:00 ` Thomas Zander
2015-08-07 17:09 ` Pieter Wuille
2015-08-07 21:35 ` Thomas Zander
2015-08-07 22:53 ` Adam Back
2015-08-08 16:54 ` Dave Scotese
2015-08-07 17:50 ` Gavin Andresen [this message]
2015-08-07 18:05 ` Jameson Lopp
2015-08-07 18:10 ` Pieter Wuille
2015-08-07 21:43 ` Thomas Zander
2015-08-07 22:00 ` Thomas Zander
2015-08-06 16:19 ` [bitcoin-dev] " Tom Harding
2015-08-06 21:56 ` Peter Todd
2015-08-06 15:25 ` Jorge Timón
2015-08-06 16:03 ` Gavin Andresen
2015-08-06 16:11 ` Mike Hearn
2015-08-06 17:15 ` Jorge Timón
2015-08-06 19:42 ` Gavin Andresen
2015-08-06 20:01 ` Pieter Wuille
2015-08-06 21:51 ` Jorge Timón
2015-08-06 23:09 ` Elliot Olds
2015-08-10 19:28 ` Jorge Timón
2015-08-11 5:48 ` Elliot Olds
2015-08-09 18:46 ` [bitcoin-dev] What Lightning Is Tom Harding
2015-08-09 18:54 ` Mark Friedenbach
2015-08-09 20:14 ` Hector Chu
[not found] ` <CAOG=w-s9KsaPwveSpgdvsVTWUDV77YY7Em7NZGyxSQMMCccYSg@mail.gmail.com>
2015-08-09 20:48 ` Hector Chu
2015-08-10 4:48 ` Joseph Poon
2015-08-10 17:03 ` odinn
2015-08-10 17:14 ` Pieter Wuille
2015-08-10 17:45 ` odinn
2015-08-09 21:27 ` Tom Harding
2015-08-09 21:40 ` Chris Pacia
2015-08-09 21:45 ` Hector Chu
2015-08-09 21:57 ` Patrick Strateman
2015-08-09 22:03 ` Hector Chu
2015-08-09 22:36 ` Patrick Strateman
2015-08-10 1:52 ` Tom Harding
2015-08-10 3:31 ` Patrick Strateman
2015-08-09 22:06 ` Patrick Strateman
2015-08-09 22:09 ` Hector Chu
2015-08-09 22:27 ` Patrick Strateman
2015-08-09 22:30 ` Hector Chu
2015-08-09 22:44 ` Gavin Andresen
2015-08-09 22:51 ` Btc Drak
2015-08-10 8:27 ` Thomas Zander
2015-08-10 8:36 ` Patrick Strateman
2015-08-10 4:39 ` Joseph Poon
2015-08-10 21:02 ` Anthony Towns
2015-08-10 21:19 ` Anthony Towns
2015-08-10 21:43 ` Adam Back
2015-08-11 9:01 ` Hector Chu
2015-08-11 17:17 ` Simon Liu
2015-07-31 14:52 ` [bitcoin-dev] Block size following technological growth Bryan Bishop
2015-07-30 17:46 ` Jorge Timón
2015-08-02 22:35 ` Anthony Towns
2015-07-30 20:20 ` Thomas Zander
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