Transaction sizes are still limited to 1MB with this patch.  While this isn't technically a change, it does mean that both are no longer linked together.

Since this has no voting step, I assume the intention is that as a compromise suggestion, it would have full support.

It establishes a precedent for hard forks not to require a vote though.

On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 4:55 PM, Jeff Garzik via bitcoin-dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
Opening a mailing list thread on this BIP:

BIP PR: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/173
Code PR: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/6451

The general intent of this BIP is as a minimum viable alternative plan to my preferred proposal (BIP 100).

If agreement is not reached on a more comprehensive solution, then this solution is at least available and a known quantity.  A good backup plan.

Benefits:  conservative increase.  proves network can upgrade.  permits some added growth, while the community & market gathers data on how an increased block size impacts privacy, security, centralization, transaction throughput and other metrics.  2MB seems to be a Least Common Denominator on an increase.

Costs:  requires a hard fork.  requires another hard fork down the road.



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