| > The only reason it's not currently possible is because the Bitcoin Core developers have deliberately forced the network to run out of capacity The Bitcoin developers suspect that there is nearly unlimited demand for $0.000000000000000000001 bitcoin transactions (micropayments). "Unlimited demand" is another way of saying "denial-of-service vulnerability". I think that "forced the network" is tiresome allegation-making. The developers did not force the network to have an asymmetric bandwidth graph, but they definitely have an interest in countering centralization pressure (such as the increase in resource requirements derived from increasing transaction rate directly through the block size parameter). .... I know you have long-standing disagreements with Bitcoin Core developers, but this does not seem like good reason to gloss over their reasoning. > Saying "it isn't feasible" or "not credibly possible" when it was repeatedly done right up until very recently is ... not great. "What they call a 'centralization pressure' was working fine right up until some limitations on that 'centralization pressure' were implemented!" > instead of doing what the community wanted and raising the block size limit Btw "what the community wants" is irrelevant when trying to determine feasibility; sum of community-desire-weight does not make community-desired options more/less feasible. |