On Fri, May 08, 2015 at 12:03:04PM +0200, Mike Hearn wrote: > > > > * Though there are many proposals floating around which could > > significantly decrease block propagation latency, none of them are > > implemented today. > > > With a 20mb cap, miners still have the option of the soft limit.
The soft-limit is there miners themselves produce smaller blocks; the soft-limit does not prevent other miners from producing larger blocks. As we're talking about ways that other miners can use 20MB blocks to harm the competition, talking about the soft-limit is irrelevant. Similarly, as security engineers we must plan for the worst case; as we've seen before by your campaigns to raise the soft-limit(1) even at a time when the vast majority of transaction volume was from one user (SatoshiDice) soft-limits are an extremely weak form of control. For the proposes of discussing blocksize increase requirements we can stop talking about the soft-limit. 1) https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=149668.0 -- 'peter'[:-1]@petertodd.org 000000000000000009344ba165781ee352f93d657c8b098c8e518e6011753e59
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