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Cc: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Core and hard forks
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On 7/23/2015 10:51 AM, Jorge Timón wrote:
> We know perfectly well that the system will need to eventually be
> sustained by fees.

Fee revenue can rise just as easily without increased BTC fee rates.

Two avenues that are just as effective: increased exchange rate,
increased number of fee-paying transactions.  Neither of these avenues
benefits from increased "fee pressure" (scarcity of block space).


> I just disagree that changing a constant is a "scaling solution".
>

Nobody here thinks that.  Even on Reddit, not very many people seem to
think that.