> There is actually no real point of rate limiting the creation of new blocks… To avoid fracturing the network and wasting significant amounts of work, the tim

> There is actually no real point of rate limiting the creation of new blocks… To avoid fracturing the network and wasting significant amounts of work, the time between blocks needs to be much longer than the time it takes to propagate newly mined blocks to most of the nodes. There are also concerns about the minimum amount of storage and bandwidth required to participate as a full node, and how that may drive increasing centralization. Storage can be mitigated somewhat with better pruning of old, spent transactions, but bandwidth is a harder problem facing any attempt to increase the core transaction rate.