Does it matter even in the slightest why the block size limit was put in place? It does not. Bitcoin is a decentralized payment network, and the relationship between utility (block size) and decentralization is empirical. Why the 1MB limit was put in place at the time might be a historically interesting question, but it bears little relevance to the present engineering issues.
On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 5:43 PM, Jean-Paul Kogelman via bitcoin-dev < [email protected]> wrote: > > > Enter a “temporary” anti-spam measure - a one megabyte block size limit. > Let’s test this out, then increase it once we see how things work. So far > so good… > > > > The block size limit was put in place as an anti-DoS measure (monster > blocks), not "anti-spam". It was never intended to have any economic > effect, not on spam and not on any future fee market. > > > jp > > _______________________________________________ > bitcoin-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev >
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