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Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 13:19:52 -0400
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From: Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@gmail.com>
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Cc: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] New standard transaction types: time to
 schedule a blockchain split?
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On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 1:07 PM, Rick Wesson
<rick@support-intelligence.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 9:46 AM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@gmail.com> wro=
te:
>> On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Luke-Jr <luke@dashjr.org> wrote:
>>
>> > - Replace hard limits (like 1 MB maximum block size) with something th=
at
>> > can
>> > dynamically adapt with the times. Maybe based on difficulty so it can'=
t
>> > be
>> > gamed?
>> Too early for that.
> Could you provide a=C2=A0reference=C2=A0to why in your estimation it is "=
to early."
> =C2=A0Simpy stating this as fact isn't enough to sway demand.

Can you provide a reference to this 'demand' a post by Luke isn't
enough to support the claim of demand.

We're not at maximum size right now (thankfully).

We don't know what the network dynamics would look like at that
traffic level. So how could we competently say what the right metrics
would be to get the right behavior there?  Thats what I meant by too
early.