<div dir="ltr">Conservative is a relative term. Dropping transactions in a way that is unpredictable to the sender sounds incredibly drastic to me. I'm suggesting increasing the blocksize, drastic as it is, is the more conservative choice. I would recommend that the fork take effect when some specific large supermajority of the pervious 1000 blocks indicate they have upgraded, as a safer alternative to a simple flag date, but I'm sure I wouldn't have to point out that option to people here.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><br>Aaron Voisine</div><div>co-founder and CEO<br><a href="http://breadwallet.com" target="_blank">breadwallet.com</a></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 5:58 PM, Pieter Wuille <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pieter.wuille@gmail.com" target="_blank">pieter.wuille@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span class="">On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 5:48 PM, Aaron Voisine <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:voisine@gmail.com" target="_blank">voisine@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></span><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span><span style="font-size:13px"></span></span>We have $3billion plus of value in this system to defend. The safe, conservative course is to increase the block size. Miners already have an incentive to find ways to encourage higher fees and we can help them with standard recommended propagation rules and hybrid priority/fee transaction selection for blocks that increases confirmation delays for low fee transactions.<span></span><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>You may find that the most economical solution, but I can't understand how you can call it conservative.<br><br></div><div>Suggesting a hard fork is betting the survival of the entire ecosystem on the bet that everyone will agree with and upgrade to new suggested software before a flag date.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><br>-- <br></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div>Pieter<br><br></div></font></span></div></div></div>
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