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73 sats \ 6 replies \ @k00b 13 Feb \ on: I'm Jameson Lopp, co-founder of Casa, AMA! AMA
What's something you believe about bitcoin that few bitcoiners agree with you on?
Probably that we will need to eventually revisit the block size debate and that failing to allow the base blockchain to scale along with technological growth will have its own undesirable ramifications.
Though I could be wrong... if everyone just decides to "adopt" bitcoin via ETFs and nobody actually wants to use bitcoin in a permissionless manner!
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I saw your Lugano presentation and agree absolutely that it makes sense to scale with technological scaling laws
Do you think this is a debate that will have to be revisited periodically, or do you think bitcoin devs will be able to agree on some algorithmic scaling solution?
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I think block size / weight shouldn't be "pick a number" political games every so often, but rather should be thought of similar to the difficulty target adjustment, but with economic factors. I'm hopeful that an algorithm can be developed that takes everyone's concerns and incentives into account.
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Monero has dynamic block sizing. That seems relevant. Do you think it could be implemented to bitcoin?
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Of all the dynamic block sizes algorithms I've looked at, I like Monero's the best. I think some of its ideas could be worth incorporating. In particular, the economic aspect that larger blocks also requires higher transaction fees - any block size proposal should take long term thermodynamic sustainability into account.
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Not sure if he'll answer but I'd say probably it can, a version of it was implemented in BCH in the ABLA upgrade
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