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Topic: 0.6% of the nodes accept blocks > 1 MB **TODAY** No need to wait for BIP101 (Read 1192 times)
January 01, 2016, 04:03:59 PM
December 31, 2015, 02:35:33 PM
As always, be careful whose binaries you run.
Absolutely! If you can, build from the source.
If not, verify the file hashes (instructions
at the bottom of the download page)
Happy New Year 2016!!
legendary
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December 31, 2015, 01:23:30 PM
As always, be careful whose binaries you run.
December 31, 2015, 11:12:45 AM
So to run this node i have to download another client then? so my bitcoin core will not allow larger blocks?
Here you go
http://www.bitcoinunlimited.info/download.html
Core won't allow bigger blocks, by running BU you're signaling
your willingness to accept them (or any block size you prefer).
December 31, 2015, 10:14:08 AM
So to run this node i have to download another client then? so my bitcoin core will not allow larger blocks?
December 31, 2015, 05:59:30 AM
With the recent release of Bitcoin Unlimited, last time I checked, 0.6% of the network nodes had switched. These nodes will accept blocks greater than 1 MB **TODAY**. That is, they do not need to wait until something like BIP101 activates.
1,5% right now!
December 26, 2015, 03:39:47 PM
Nodes without miners to mine the large blocks are useless.
Agreed. And large blocks without nodes to accept them are equally useless. The Circle of Life, as it were.
December 25, 2015, 11:05:08 PM
Nodes without miners to mine the large blocks are useless.
December 25, 2015, 08:50:39 PM
With the recent release of Bitcoin Unlimited, last time I checked, 0.6% of the network nodes had switched. These nodes will accept blocks greater than 1 MB **TODAY**. That is, they do not need to wait until something like BIP101 activates.
Bitcoin Unlimited has now proven empirically that individual nodes can increase their own personal block size limits and stay perfectly in sync with consensus.
On the other hand, no rational miner would dare to publish a block greater than 1 MB today because it would certainly be orphaned. But eventually when enough nodes have increased their own block size limits for what they will accept, a brave miner will produce a large block, it will be accepted into the Blockchain, and we'll look back at this debate and laugh.
Bitcoin Unlimited has now proven empirically that individual nodes can increase their own personal block size limits and stay perfectly in sync with consensus.
On the other hand, no rational miner would dare to publish a block greater than 1 MB today because it would certainly be orphaned. But eventually when enough nodes have increased their own block size limits for what they will accept, a brave miner will produce a large block, it will be accepted into the Blockchain, and we'll look back at this debate and laugh.
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