What is Bitcoin? - Roger Ver March 2017.pdf · Bitcoin Core and Blockstream Advocate for 1MB...
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What is Bitcoin?
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Good Money
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Good Money
This is being damaged by Core
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Substitute Goods
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Bitcoin Core and Blockstream
Advocate for 1MB Blocks to intentionally create
High Fees&
Full Blocks
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Full Blocks lead to High Fees Long Waits
Horrible User Experience
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This will result in Fewer Users Fewer Nodes
Lower Adoption Lower Bitcoin market cap
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If you get the economics wrongIt doesn’t matter how good of a
programmer you are.
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Greg Maxwell, CTO“I don't think that transaction fees mattering is a failing-- it's success!”
https://www.reddit.com/r/bitcoinxt/comments/3vxv92/peter_wuille_deer_caught_in_the_headlights/cxxfqsj/
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“fee pressure is an intentional part of the system design and to the best of the current understanding essential for the system’s long term survival.
So, uh, yes. It’s good.”
https://botbot.me/freenode/bitcoin-wizards/2016-01-17/?msg=58099943&page=1
Greg Maxwell, CTO
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Greg Maxwell, CTO“There is nothing wrong with full blocks”
https://botbot.me/freenode/bitcoin-wizards/2016-01-17/?msg=58099943&page=1
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https://botbot.me/freenode/bitcoin-wizards/2016-01-17/?msg=58099943&page=1
“Full blocks is the natural state of the system”
Greg Maxwell, CTO
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“There is a consistent fee backlog, which is the required criteria for stability.“
https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/5tzq45/hey_do_you_realize_the_blocks_are_full_since_when/ddtb8dl/
Greg Maxwell, CTO
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“we - as a community - should indeed let a fee market develop, and rather sooner than later”
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2015-July/009515.html
Pieter Wuille
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“Slow confirmation, high fees will be the norm in any safe outcome.”
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/48zhos/what_happened_at_the_satoshi_roundtable/d0o5w13/
Mark Friedenbach
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Luke-jr
“Reasonable block sizes currently range from ~550k to 1 MB"
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/5fwq1k/the_case_for_compromise_in_the_block_size_debate/daoipml/
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Luke-jr“It is no longer possible to keep
fees low.”
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/5fwq1k/the_case_for_compromise_in_the_block_size_debate/daoipml/
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“Just pay a $5 fee and it'll go through every time unless you're doing something stupid.”
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/5rvtzx/75k_unconfirmed_tx_have_suggestion/ddaii2i/
Luke-jr
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Jorge Timon“…higher fees may be just what is
needed…”
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2015-July/009792.html
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“Confirmation times are fine for those who pay high fees.”
https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/5jtzt6/there_is_a_correlation_coefficient_of_080018843/dbkqpxn/
Jorge Timon
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Jorge Timon“Bitcoin needs a competitive fee market in the long run to sustain pow
once the subsidies are gone. I am very happy that we have it now….”
https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/5jtzt6/there_is_a_correlation_coefficient_of_080018843/dbkqpxn/
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“I think Adam and I agree that hitting the limit wouldn't be bad, but actually good for an
young and immature market like bitcoin fees.”
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2015-July/009804.html
Jorge Timon
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“A mounting fee pressure, resulting in a true fee market where transactions compete to get into blocks, results
in urgency to develop decentralized off-chain solutions.”
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2015-May/007890.html
Wladimir J. van der Laan
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https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2015-May/007890.html
Wladimir J. van der Laan
“ I'm afraid increasing the block size will kick this can down the road and let people (and the large Bitcoin companies) relax…”
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What can we do about it?
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Bigger Blocks Lower Fees
Faster Confirmations +
Layer 2 Scaling
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Bitcoin Unlimited’s plan leads to…..
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Better Money
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Better Money Leads to:
More Users More Nodes
More Adoption More Censorship Resistance
Higher Market Cap Higher price
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