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Re:Bitcoin Is Having a Civil War as It Enters a Critical Month by gcb0 on Monday July 17, 2017 @04:40PM (#14792098)
how can't you validate a block if that is trivial, even with the changes? honest question. does the proposal screw things up that much that you need to do a trillion hashes to validate instead of one?
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Re:Bitcoin Is Having a Civil War as It Enters a Critical Month by hudon on Monday July 17, 2017 @04:47PM (#14792146)
A bigger block requires at least as many resources as a smaller one to receive, validate and store the data.

I am not saying we should never increase the block size, but I am saying we should try all alternatives that make the network more efficient (more tx throughput for same total resource cost) without making it harder for users to validate the blockchain.

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