It is a slippery slope. After you have changed the block size once, it would be too easy to do it again. And again. Any time we come up against a problem that could be solved by bigger blocks, we will be much more likely to trade accessibility (hardware that people can afford *in the long term*) for that extra bandwidth on the blockchain.
If we simply decide not to go down that path (as we ended up doing) we ensure that Bitcoin's architecture remains sustainable and accessible. Developers understand that they need to be very mindful of costly space on the blochchain.
(Think if this in terms of RAM usage on your PC today. The reason some browsers use over 10Gb of memory today is because memory was cheap and everyone has plenty. Because they weren't coding for efficiency, now everything runs like ass because it assumes infinity RAM.)
Increasing block size would almost be a form of inflation... while it wouldn't add much to costs of running a node today - a few percent perhaps - down the line it could absolutely price the average person out.
Sattrio
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2026-06-16 17:53:49
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