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Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 13:05:27 -0800
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From: Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@gmail.com>
To: Gavin Andresen <gavinandresen@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Incorporating block validation rule
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On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Gavin Andresen <gavinandresen@gmail.com> w=
rote:
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 10:42 AM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>  Since, in the long run,
>> Bitcoin can't meet its security and decenteralization promises without
>> blockspace scarcity to drive non-trivial fees and without scaling
>> limits to keep it decenteralized=E2=80=94 it's not a change that could b=
e made
>> more lightly than changing the supply of coin.
> I disagree with Gregory on this.  I believe that Bitcoin CAN meet its
> security and decentralization promises without any hard limit on block si=
ze.
>
> I had a fruitful discussion about this with an economist friend this
> weekend, and I'll eventually getting around to writing up why I believe
> raising the block size limit will not be a problem.

That would be fantastic.