10% is not a tiny minority. On Feb 8, 2017 9:51 AM, "Andrew Johnson" <[email protected]> wrote:
> You're never going to reach 100% agreement, and stifling the network > literally forever to please a tiny minority is daft. > > On Feb 8, 2017 8:52 AM, "alp alp via bitcoin-dev" <bitcoin-dev@lists. > linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > > 10% say literally never. That seems like a significant disenfranchisement > and lack of consensus. > > On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 2:25 PM, t. khan via bitcoin-dev < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 2:53 PM, Luke Dashjr <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Monday, February 06, 2017 6:19:43 PM you wrote: >>> > >My BIP draft didn't make progress because the community opposes any >>> block >>> > >size increase hardfork ever. >>> > >>> > Luke, how do you know the community opposes that? Specifically, how >>> did you >>> > come to this conclusion? >>> >>> http://www.strawpoll.me/12228388/r >> >> >> That poll shows 63% of votes want a larger than 1 MB block by this >> summer. How do you go from that to "the community opposes any block >> increase ever"? It shows the exact opposite of that. >> >> >>> > >Your version doesn't address the current block size >>> > >issues (ie, the blocks being too large). >>> > >>> > Why do you think blocks are "too large"? Please cite some evidence. >>> I've >>> > asked this before and you ignored it, but an answer would be helpful >>> to the >>> > discussion. >>> >>> Full node count is far below the safe minimum of 85% of economic >>> activity. >>> >> >> Is this causing a problem now? If so, what? >> >> >>> Typically reasons given for people not using full nodes themselves come >>> down >>> to the high resource requirements caused by the block size. >> >> >> The reason people stop running nodes is because there's no incentive to >> counteract the resource costs. Attempting to solve this by making blocks >> *smaller* is like curing a disease by killing the patient. (Incentivizing >> full node operation would fix that problem.) >> >> - t.k. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> bitcoin-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > bitcoin-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev > > >
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