Well i just received a transaction without any issue, but i see that unconfirmed transactions are at 10 000, and mempool at 12 MB tho.
Don't know if the bigger block sizes only are the solution to this problem, but something definitely needs to be done, because if there's a lot of people that cant get their transactions confirmed, it's looking bad.
cheers
bigger blocks will change nothing. if someone spams alot it will slow down other people's spam. thats all!. the only people affected are those sending tiny payments like $0.005 without fee and those using online wallets that are too cheap to add fees to their customer's transactions.
if you promote spam you would like to increase spam per second.
REGULAR TRANSACTIONS ARE NOT AFFECTED AND WILL NOT BE AFFECTED
THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH BLOCKSIZE.
all it is is A SPAM BACKLOG!
DO NOT PROMOTE SPAM. when bitcoin supports spam your investment will be worth exactly 0
172,000 transactions in last 24 hours. A record. Over 200k soon? Sounds like they should of solved the block size increase issue weeks ago rather then arguing about it.
no blocksize has nothing to do with it. 172k SPAM transactions NOT CONFIRMED IS A GOOD THING.
DO NOT PROMOTE SPAM!
It would be more accurate to say that (some) regular transactions are not affected
yet (+caps if you're so inclined). But what happens when the userbase grows to a size where we can have 172,000 transactions that are all legitimate? It might be spam now, but this is an indication of how the network might look in future with more users. You can't say with any certainty that such a scenario is beyond the realm of possibility. So what do you propose when we reach that stage and it's valid transactions left waiting and not spam? Obviously your answer is going to be "
lightning network this" or "
sidechains that" or "
let's play guessing games with fees" or "
only large transactions are important, everyone else should get the hell off my exclusive, elitist blockchain". We've heard it all before. It is about the blocksize and not spam, so stop deflecting the issue. The issue is, should Bitcoin scale to support more users, or do we provide the majority of users with a second-class service and allow Bitcoin to become a plaything for the wealthy?
