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Subject: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Core: The globally aware global consensus
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Bitcoin is globally aware global consensus.
It means every node both knows about and agrees on every transaction.
Do we need global awareness of every transaction to run a worldwide payment n=
etwork? Of course not! In fact the limits of today's technology probably wou=
ld not even allow it.
Global awareness is a finite resource. That's okay; hub and spoke, or other c=
lever designs are going to ensure we can run worldwide transactions without r=
equiring global awareness. That's great!
But even if we have hub and spoke, we still need a "hub" at the center. Bitc=
oin Core needs to focus on being that hub. It needs to be the best globally a=
ware global consensus network that we can build. Let's put aside our differe=
nces and focus on this goal.=20
Part of building the best network means ensuring that network can operate at=
the highest capacity technology can allow.=20
If we run the test-net to show that hardware exists today to safely increase=
block size to a static 8 MB, then we will have broad developer support to m=
ake this happen.
Let's get that done. We can continue to adjust the block size upward in the f=
uture as technology permits.
Thoughts?=
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