📅 Original date posted:2015-05-06
📝 Original message:I'm not so much opposed to a block size increase as I am opposed to a hard fork. My problem with a hard fork is that everyone and their brother wants to seize the opportunity of a hard fork to insert their own pet feature, and such a mad rush of lightly considered, obscure feature additions would be extremely risky for Bitcoin. If it could be guaranteed that raising the block size limit would be the only incompatible change introduced in the hard fork, then I would support it, but I strongly fear that the hard fork itself will become an excuse to change other aspects of the system in ways that will have unintended and possibly disastrous consequences.
Matt Whitlock [ARCHIVE] /
npub17q…upwet
2023-06-07 15:33:02
in reply to nevent1q…jqqg
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2023-06-07 15:33:02Event JSON
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