📅 Original date posted:2015-09-14
📝 Original message:I appreciate your interest in Bitcoin, but I trust that you understand your
proposal adds nothing to the current discussion and recommend you read more
emails from this mailing list.
On 14/09/2015 11:47 am, "Jason Livesay via bitcoin-dev" <
bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> After studying the issues I believe that the situation warrants a
> short-term modest blockchain increase. Somewhere between 2mb-5mb, whatever
> the community will swallow. I recommend that happen before the winter
> shopping rush.
>
> Then, because of the fundamental technical limitations of scaling, a new
> system needs to be adopted for fast transactions. To maintain momentum
> etc., the new system ultimately settles with traditional bitcoins.
>
> In order to keep the existing brand momentum, network, and business
> investment, I believe the smoothest path forward is to build a new,
> additional system re-using the bitcoin name. I suggest this new system
> come packaged with the bitcoin core client and be referred to as
> QuickBitcoin or qbtc or something similar. As far as the public is
> concerned it could simply continue to be called bitcoin. The system will
> work on top of traditional bitcoins but have a mechanism for more/faster
> transactions. Exactly what mechanism doesn't have to be perfect, it just
> needs to be reasonably secure/useful and something that the community will
> accept.
>
> I believe this is the best way to scale bitcoin while maintaining the
> strength of its existing network, community, and branding.
>
> _______________________________________________
> bitcoin-dev mailing list
> bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org
> https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/attachments/20150915/95fe131b/attachment.html>;
gladoscc [ARCHIVE] /
npub138…4h7my
2023-06-07 17:40:11
in reply to nevent1q…xrg9
Author Public Key
npub138yeqaf7leywengpmjy44kcv08cers44gu784mhum2h7u8yw8sns74h7myPublished at
2023-06-07 17:40:11Event JSON
{
"id": "5087a28853d909de36fbbd3455203b13e41ad689fde72afafa6ec33a9958922b",
"pubkey": "89c990753efe48eccd01dc895adb0c79f191c2b5473c7aeefcdaafee1c8e3c27",
"created_at": 1686159611,
"kind": 1,
"tags": [
[
"e",
"3406be27e8822840521b2f8e5d89c48f2a2424faa6968259c2f0871dcc03b8e0",
"",
"root"
],
[
"e",
"e07499d012ea1f4cbbe211aeaf841fd137707b58b1e1e76401b5e13457beeba4",
"",
"reply"
],
[
"p",
"20afead18083a97136122f60babb828245cc46460f61594fd14365ea113d3553"
]
],
"content": "📅 Original date posted:2015-09-14\n📝 Original message:I appreciate your interest in Bitcoin, but I trust that you understand your\nproposal adds nothing to the current discussion and recommend you read more\nemails from this mailing list.\nOn 14/09/2015 11:47 am, \"Jason Livesay via bitcoin-dev\" \u003c\nbitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org\u003e wrote:\n\n\u003e After studying the issues I believe that the situation warrants a\n\u003e short-term modest blockchain increase. Somewhere between 2mb-5mb, whatever\n\u003e the community will swallow. I recommend that happen before the winter\n\u003e shopping rush.\n\u003e\n\u003e Then, because of the fundamental technical limitations of scaling, a new\n\u003e system needs to be adopted for fast transactions. To maintain momentum\n\u003e etc., the new system ultimately settles with traditional bitcoins.\n\u003e\n\u003e In order to keep the existing brand momentum, network, and business\n\u003e investment, I believe the smoothest path forward is to build a new,\n\u003e additional system re-using the bitcoin name. I suggest this new system\n\u003e come packaged with the bitcoin core client and be referred to as\n\u003e QuickBitcoin or qbtc or something similar. As far as the public is\n\u003e concerned it could simply continue to be called bitcoin. The system will\n\u003e work on top of traditional bitcoins but have a mechanism for more/faster\n\u003e transactions. Exactly what mechanism doesn't have to be perfect, it just\n\u003e needs to be reasonably secure/useful and something that the community will\n\u003e accept.\n\u003e\n\u003e I believe this is the best way to scale bitcoin while maintaining the\n\u003e strength of its existing network, community, and branding.\n\u003e\n\u003e _______________________________________________\n\u003e bitcoin-dev mailing list\n\u003e bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org\n\u003e https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev\n\u003e\n\u003e\n-------------- next part --------------\nAn HTML attachment was scrubbed...\nURL: \u003chttp://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/attachments/20150915/95fe131b/attachment.html\u003e",
"sig": "497e0c0022b079f9980720ccff9bf15fbf0255d89d75fdd9f4d42c3298518a1e21e7d4253988d3e4f1358c773bfed8b5102af2e8560be33794fb5cd372cfb953"
}