<div dir="ltr"><div><div>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.<br><br></div>Since this has no voting step, I assume the intention is that as a compromise suggestion, it would have full support.<br><br></div>It establishes a precedent for hard forks not to require a vote though.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 4:55 PM, Jeff Garzik via bitcoin-dev <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org" target="_blank">bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org</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"><div>Opening a mailing list thread on this BIP:</div><div><br></div>BIP PR: <a href="https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/173" target="_blank">https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/173</a><div>Code PR: <a href="https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/6451" target="_blank">https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/6451</a></div><div><br></div><div>The general intent of this BIP is as a minimum viable alternative plan to my preferred proposal (BIP 100).</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Costs: requires a hard fork. requires another hard fork down the road.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>
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