[Cryptography] Bitcoin blocksize limit can be removed

Peter Todd pete at petertodd.org
Thu Nov 19 01:09:56 EST 2015


On Mon, Nov 09, 2015 at 07:18:50AM -0500, Satoshi Nakamoto wrote:
> I have been following the recent development about the block size limit. The initial purpose of block size limit is to limit the bandwidth so that it is easy for people to record the blockchain on their computer rather than on some cloud-based center authorities. In this way, the DOS attack with an enormous fake block can also be prevented. At that time, 1M is a good number to keep the network going and, therefore, the experiment.

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> Satoshi Nakamoto

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