[jwilkins]

Core has been moving away from failed experiments like unconfirmed transactions. (How that wasn't an obviously flawed idea in the first place is beyond me, but hey, might as well get the data..)

No one in core is saying that growth is a bad thing and must be avoided, the key point that has been repeated is that the approach you and Gavin took with XT was not a good one. It has been poorly thought out from the get go. The initial proposal contended that we had to go to 20MB or we were doomed, remember that?

Bitcoin needs a steady hand at the wheel. Wladimir and co are putting out a solid amount of code with remarkably little disruption.

Your statement re: orchid is a little misleading. You might be a maintainer, but https://github.com/subgraph/Orchid/commits/develop shows that your contributions are minor. https://github.com/subgraph/Orchid/graphs/contributors

Why do you continue to cause this degree of public spectacle and unnecessary drama?

[mike_hearn]

Orchid is developed in the bitcoinj tree these days, not the subgraph repository. Upstream imported changes one time, but I continue to handle it on a day to day basis.

Unconfirmed transactions are not at all a failure. The data is in - usage of them has been increasing over time, not decreasing. When someone attacked shapeshift.io (an exchange that uses them!) and double spent, their response was "We get significant value from fast payments, we can easily patch the exploit they used, and we're going to continue with our current path".

The initial proposal was not "20mb or we're doomed". It was "we need more space or we're doomed, 20mb seems to work OK based on <reasons>". But lowering it to make the Chinese pools happy is not a problem, as it's an upper limit.

I'm afraid the drama has all been created by others. The limit was always meant to be removed, remember? We're not the ones suddenly trying to change the plan.