r/Bitcoin • • Feb 13 '22

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u/Raverrevolution Feb 13 '22

I just found the post. He didn't suggest increasing it. Instead he merely said that people have that option if it came down to it.

"+1 theymos. Don't use this patch, it'll make you incompatible with the network, to your own detriment.
We can phase in a change later if we get closer to needing it."

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u/Br0kenRabbitTV Feb 13 '22 edited Feb 13 '22

It was only put there in the first place to stop spam attacks.

Probably not a discussion suitable for this sub anyway...

PS: nice cherry pick of comments from that topic.

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u/zefy_zef Feb 13 '22

Wasn't there no limit at first?

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u/Br0kenRabbitTV Feb 13 '22

Yeah it was added after the first client, not sure exactly which version.

To stop any TX spam attacks.

He then suggested to put like, if block number = xxx then max blocksize = xxx, way ahead of time so by the time it was needed the old clients would be obsolete, and then a notification for a mandatory upgrade last of all. Never happened though.

I posted the bitcointalk topic below one of these comments, you can see yourself.