<div dir="ltr"><div>On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 2:53 PM, Luke Dashjr <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:luke@dashjr.org" target="_blank">luke@dashjr.org</a>></span> wrote:<br></div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="gmail-">On Monday, February 06, 2017 6:19:43 PM you wrote:<br>
> >My BIP draft didn't make progress because the community opposes any block<br>
> >size increase hardfork ever.<br>
><br>
</span><span class="gmail-">> Luke, how do you know the community opposes that? Specifically, how did you<br>
> come to this conclusion?<br>
<br>
</span><a href="http://www.strawpoll.me/12228388/r" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.strawpoll.me/<wbr>12228388/r</a></blockquote><div><br></div>That poll shows 63% of votes want a larger than 1 MB block by this summer. How do you go from that to "the community opposes any block increase ever"? It shows the exact opposite of that.<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="gmail-">
> >Your version doesn't address the current block size<br>
> >issues (ie, the blocks being too large).<br>
><br>
> Why do you think blocks are "too large"? Please cite some evidence. I've<br>
> asked this before and you ignored it, but an answer would be helpful to the<br>
> discussion.<br>
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</span>Full node count is far below the safe minimum of 85% of economic activity.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Is this causing a problem now? If so, what?</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
Typically reasons given for people not using full nodes themselves come down<br>
to the high resource requirements caused by the block size.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>The reason people stop running nodes is because there's no incentive to counteract the resource costs. Attempting to solve this by making blocks *smaller* is like curing a disease by killing the patient. (Incentivizing full node operation would fix that problem.)<br></div><div><br></div><div>- t.k.</div></div><br></div></div></div>