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1 Received: from sog-mx-1.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com ([172.29.43.191] 2 helo=mx.sourceforge.net) 3 by sfs-ml-4.v29.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) 4 (envelope-from <bitcoin@olivere.de>) id 1YzQyp-0005Ey-6e 5 for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; 6 Mon, 01 Jun 2015 14:46:19 +0000 7 X-ACL-Warn: 8 Received: from jymx.de ([81.169.251.53] helo=mail.jymx.de) 9 by sog-mx-1.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtps (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) 10 (Exim 4.76) id 1YzQyn-0005NP-4a 11 for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; 12 Mon, 01 Jun 2015 14:46:19 +0000 13 Received: from nat6-182.its.fh-giessen.de ([212.201.18.182]:1427 14 helo=[192.168.192.85]) 15 by mail.jymx.de with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) 16 (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from <bitcoin@olivere.de>) 17 id 1YzQyg-0003fu-B3; Mon, 01 Jun 2015 16:46:10 +0200 18 Message-ID: <556C7037.1050206@olivere.de> 19 Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2015 16:46:15 +0200 20 From: Oliver Egginger <bitcoin@olivere.de> 21 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; 22 rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 23 MIME-Version: 1.0 24 To: Gavin Andresen <gavinandresen@gmail.com> 25 References: <554BE0E1.5030001@bluematt.me> <CABsx9T0kbRe31LMwk499MQUw225f5GGd67GfhXBezHmDqxkioA@mail.gmail.com> <CAFzgq-z5WCznGhbOexS0XESNGAVauw45ewEV-1eMij7yDT61=Q@mail.gmail.com> <CAFzgq-zTybEQyGz0nq90u5n5JZcJzxQS_XKaTpr5POJi-tHM6A@mail.gmail.com> <CABsx9T2L5bi-c63-KqSifOMeNayUWSPo0_Hx8VjMR_4=kC3ixg@mail.gmail.com> <CAE28kUT61qYxqV0mOqw5Dan=eMiCvnG2SnsAeWzOWTxwLydyeQ@mail.gmail.com> <CABsx9T2hfpts5y_M6PdDcxmq9Q2smesJ0Nmp9a9iyPD_MoPC9g@mail.gmail.com> <CAE28kUTZV3YsaSCX2d5YwLetnf=f+bOWGrwxLXdZFywTZ=+Pjg@mail.gmail.com> <CALC81CNq-GK5q6R4bmgHL5_Ej2+cZrtQMMLVmuhvMxkZokM3hQ@mail.gmail.com> <CAE28kUQr+kUPak67tcNQGGscUXtJiD1LiXfjdD8_LMUWyVdR5w@mail.gmail.com> <CANEZrP12WAcUOJp5UYg4pfWL7_4WiAHWWZAoaxAb5xB+qAP4Xg@mail.gmail.com> <CAFzgq-ykeMeWF-ndgSm9upHTe8j6ZFYhBQjFs_WSz1oVd29j7g@mail.gmail.com> <CAFzgq-x+-s_Nbt4z-C4SWQbHdPr159AmL2JvpP0zg1axM+Vwcw@mail.gmail.com> 26 <CABsx9T2aEvPs68pQA-KrtaDQFcTTtiB36eqKAcJRkiOFQr6WsA@mail.gmail.com> 27 In-Reply-To: <CABsx9T2aEvPs68pQA-KrtaDQFcTTtiB36eqKAcJRkiOFQr6WsA@mail.gmail.com> 28 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 29 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 30 X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) 31 X-Spam-Report: Spam Filtering performed by mx.sourceforge.net. 32 See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. 33 X-Headers-End: 1YzQyn-0005NP-4a 34 Cc: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net 35 Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Fwd: Block Size Increase Requirements 36 X-BeenThere: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net 37 X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 38 Precedence: list 39 List-Id: <bitcoin-development.lists.sourceforge.net> 40 List-Unsubscribe: <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development>, 41 <mailto:bitcoin-development-request@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=unsubscribe> 42 List-Archive: <http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=bitcoin-development> 43 List-Post: <mailto:bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net> 44 List-Help: <mailto:bitcoin-development-request@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=help> 45 List-Subscribe: <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development>, 46 <mailto:bitcoin-development-request@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=subscribe> 47 X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2015 14:46:19 -0000 48 49 On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 3:59 PM, Gavin Andresen wrote: 50 > What do other people think? Would starting at a max of 8 or 4 get 51 > consensus? Scaling up a little less than Nielsen's Law of Internet 52 > Bandwidth predicts for the next 20 years? (I think predictability is 53 > REALLY important). 54 > 55 > I chose 20 because all of my testing shows it to be safe, and all of my 56 > back-of-the-envelope calculations indicate the costs are reasonable. 57 > 58 > If consensus is "8 because more than order-of-magnitude increases are 59 > scary" -- ok. 60 61 It would feel better for me if you would keep the power of two: 62 63 2^0 = 1MB 64 2^1 = 2MB 65 2^2 = 4MB 66 2^3 = 8MB 67 . 68 . 69 . 70 71 But that's only personal. Maybe other people feeling the same. 72 73 - oliver 74 75