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Limit was to stop spams to bloat the chain. If there wasn't one, you can have a million tx and block size gets insane.
by h1d 9y ago
Limit was to stop spams to bloat the chain. If there wasn't one, you can have a million tx and block size gets insane.
- CyberDildonics 9y agoThat isn't a scaling problem and is a false dichotomy. A scaling problem would be if putting the max block size cap higher than it is now caused network problems. Seeing that there is trivial resource usage currently and that the 1MB block size limit was chosen arbitrarily, that seems incredibly unlikely. When I say there isn't a scaling problem and you say 'there has to be something to stop spam' these two things are not mutually exclusive. The fact that you haven't distinguished between one or the other is why FUD and propaganda works so well with bitcoin at this stage.