📅 Original date posted:2015-06-01 📝 Original message:The current max block size ...

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2023-06-07 15:36:06

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📅 Original date posted:2015-06-01
📝 Original message:The current max block size of 1000000 bytes is not power of two anyway.

On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 10:46 PM, Oliver Egginger <bitcoin at olivere.de> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 3:59 PM, Gavin Andresen wrote:
>> What do other people think? Would starting at a max of 8 or 4 get
>> consensus? Scaling up a little less than Nielsen's Law of Internet
>> Bandwidth predicts for the next 20 years? (I think predictability is
>> REALLY important).
>>
>> I chose 20 because all of my testing shows it to be safe, and all of my
>> back-of-the-envelope calculations indicate the costs are reasonable.
>>
>> If consensus is "8 because more than order-of-magnitude increases are
>> scary" -- ok.
>
> It would feel better for me if you would keep the power of two:
>
> 2^0 = 1MB
> 2^1 = 2MB
> 2^2 = 4MB
> 2^3 = 8MB
> .
> .
> .
>
> But that's only personal. Maybe other people feeling the same.
>
> - oliver
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