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A comment on Bitcoin – Potential Network Disruption on July 31st. Parent comment

Re:Bitcoin – Potential Network Disruption on July 31st by h1d on Friday July 14, 2017 @06:41AM (#14768803)
No. If a block is 10MB, you might as well keep spamming the blocks to centralize the node operation when the storage starts to require TBs.

Why do you think Satoshi's gave it an artificial 1MB limit if it didn't matter?

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Re:Bitcoin – Potential Network Disruption on July 31st by lisper on Friday July 14, 2017 @11:46AM (#14770687)
Huh? That makes no sense at all.

I have no idea why Satoshi chose a 1MB limit. Probably for the same reason he chose a 21M BTC limit on the total number of bitcoins that can be mined: both are arbitrary numbers that he pulled out of a hat. But the next time I see him I'll be sure to ask.

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Re:Bitcoin – Potential Network Disruption on July 31st by andirk on Saturday July 15, 2017 @06:38AM (#14776004)
probably more to it than a hat. She's more clever than that
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