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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
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