<p dir="ltr">On Aug 11, 2015 12:52 AM, "Pieter Wuille" <<a href="mailto:pieter.wuille@gmail.com">pieter.wuille@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On Aug 11, 2015 12:18 AM, "Thomas Zander via bitcoin-dev" <<a href="mailto:bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org">bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> > Have you ever been to a concert that was far away from public transport? They<br>
> > typically set up bus shuttles, or taxis to get people back into town<br>
> > afterwards.<br>
> > The result there is always you end up waiting forever and it actually may be<br>
> > easier to just walk instead of wait.<br>
> > The amount you pay is irrelevant if everyone is paying it. There still is more<br>
> > demand than there is capacity.<br>
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> That's an incorrect analogy. You choose the rate you pay, and get higher priority when you pay more. Taxi drivers can't pick out higher-paying customers in advance.</p>
<p dir="ltr">I'm sorry, I missed your "if everyone is paying it". This changes a lot. I agree with you: if everyone wants to pay much then it becomes unreliable.</p>
<p dir="ltr">But I don't think that is something we can avoid with a small constant factor block size increase, and we don't do the world a service by making it look like it works for longer. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Let's grow within bounderies set by technology and centralization pressure that we can agree on. Let the market decide whether how they will that will low volume reliable transactions and/or high volume unreliable ones.</p>
<p dir="ltr">-- <br>
Pieter<br>
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