I'm reading the book The Blocksize Wars (highly recommended, you can also read it for free here at BitMEX) and it's giving me some real PTSD (yes, I've been here back then). I was always in the small blocker size, especially because of the highly dubious way the big blockers tried to force people into a hard fork. UASF was a truly magical movement and it gave me a lot of confidence that Bitcoin is in the hands of its users and not some cartel making decisions for us.
That being said, trying to heal old wounds and approach things from a new and fresh perspective, I've been wondering whether there is any outlook for a size upgrade in the pipeline at all. Whether anyone puts this idea on the table anymore. I don't follow the dev github or mailing lists, /r/bitcoin is my main community, so I'm just asking you guys, what you think.
Back in the day, there were several proposals. 2MB, 8 MB etc. With SegWit this would be MvB today. What do you think? Personally, I don't think the solution to an exponential increase of user adoption, such as is the case with the Bitcoin network, can ever be solved by linear scaling solution, such as is the case with blocksize increases. However, obviously, when there is pressure on the network, a size increase would help, at least temporarily. The problem is really consensus. Without consensus, nothing is possible, so it's more of a social issue than a technical one (assuming that we're not considering gigabyte-sized blocks here).
I hope that asking this won't result in a big fight, but I am aware of the sensitive nature of this question, so I'm asking for forgiveness before you put my head under the guillotine. Not sure if the mods will leave this post up, but in the case they don't, I guess I just wasted fifteen minutes of my life typing this down.
Wherever you are, I hope you have a great Sunday.
Edit: I am a strong advocate of the Lightning Network, I've been onboarding tons of people onto it, educating about it, writing posts, and using it every day. It is obvious that second layer solutions are the way to go. Still, even if it might seem so to some, the universe isn't black and white and second layer solutions are not in opposition with discussing possible first layer scaling solutions. We are simply exchanging ideas here, nobody is going to threaten Bitcoin, so please stay civilized.
Straight up imposing restrictions on whether a question can even be asked is behaving like much of the fiat infrastructure, power monopolies, etc that we are trying to replace here. Everything is debatable and it's not you decide what should be discussed and what not. Thanks.
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