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by kobieyc 1500 days ago
That constraint is perfectly reasonable and rational, not a thumbsuck.
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cowtools 1499 days ago
It's neither reasonable or rational. As technology improves, the cost of bandwidth and storage decrease, and latency decreases. Rationally block size and block time should reflect that.
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Gigachad 1499 days ago
Without some way to squash history, I don’t see how it’s possible to fix this. The bitcoin chain is currently 400gb. If we bumped it up to 10mb blocks we would be looking at several terabytes while still not being anywhere near big enough to handle real transactions.
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cowtools 1499 days ago
It does not really matter, as only miners (and large buisnesses accepting bitcoin) would need to run a full node.

All these non-mining nodes have no real effect over decentralization, as they can't counter a 51% attack.

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