[bitcoin-dev] Quick Bitcoin/Pre-Christmas modest blocksize max increase

[gladoscc]

I appreciate your interest in Bitcoin, but I trust that you understand your
proposal adds nothing to the current discussion and recommend you read more
emails from this mailing list.
On 14/09/2015 11:47 am, "Jason Livesay via bitcoin-dev" <
bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

> After studying the issues I believe that the situation warrants a
> short-term modest blockchain increase.  Somewhere between 2mb-5mb, whatever
> the community will swallow.  I recommend that happen before the winter
> shopping rush.
>
> Then, because of the fundamental technical limitations of scaling, a new
> system needs to be adopted for fast transactions.  To maintain momentum
> etc., the new system ultimately settles with traditional bitcoins.
>
> In order to keep the existing brand momentum, network, and business
> investment, I believe the smoothest path forward is to build a new,
> additional system re-using the bitcoin name.  I suggest this new system
> come packaged with the bitcoin core client and be referred to as
> QuickBitcoin or qbtc or something similar.  As far as the public is
> concerned it could simply continue to be called bitcoin.  The system will
> work on top of traditional bitcoins but have a mechanism for more/faster
> transactions.  Exactly what mechanism doesn't have to be perfect, it just
> needs to be reasonably secure/useful and something that the community will
> accept.
>
> I believe this is the best way to scale bitcoin while maintaining the
> strength of its existing network,  community, and branding.
>
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