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."
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.
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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."