Huh? He is just making a proposal to extend the protocol to allow more transactions per block. Everyone will need new clients to make it work. But where is the destructive effect? Or am I too rational regarding your post?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZp7UGgBR0Ihonestly they made way too big a deal about this...
upping the limit from 1MB pre block to 1.5MB pre block makes shit all difference for mining pools
maybe if it needed to increase it to 100MB or more... this easy fix might need a more elaborate solution...
in my view minor changes like this are welcomed by 99% of the community ( some people just want an excuse to make some noise ), we all want to see bitcoin improve and grow.
Adam:
I believe you are downplaying the amount of the increase - it is an amazing amount of an increase in practice, maybe even too big and will have to be limited in the future... From my understanding this is how the increase would play out:
Year 1 - 1mg - increased .5mg = 1.5mg
Year 2 - 1.5mg - increased .75mg = 2.25mg
Year 3 - 2.25mg - increased 1.125mg = 3.375mg
Year 4 - 3.375mg - increased 1.6875mg = 5.0625mg
Year 5 - 5.0625mg - increased 2.53125mg = 7.59375mg
Year 6 - 7.59375mg - increased 3.796875mg = 11.390625mg
Year 7 - 11.390625mg - increased 5.6953125mg = 17.0859375mg
Year 8 - 17.0859375mg - increased 8.542968755mg = 25.6289063mg
Year 9 - 25.6289063mg - increased 12.8144531mg = 38.4433594mg
Year 10 - 38.4433594mg - increased 19.2216797mg = 57.6650391mg
nonsense
the proposal is to MAX it out at 50% a year
not necessarily increase it by that much ever year
even now the block limit isn't much of an issue, and its not like the network would collapse if it was not increased ( would just take longer for unconfirmed TX to get their first confirmation )
there have been times where blocks hit this limit, and we are approaching that time again where it can happen again from time to time, and so we are back to talking about it...
and really ... 50MB's of data every 10 mins, really? mining pools are going to need expensive data centers for that really???. who cares! look around mining pools already are expensive data centers, discussing this is nonsense, its time to make the call!