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June 05, 2015, 07:32:26 PM


oh come on! such ludicrous BS downloading 20MB is SOOOOOOOOO costly

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“A very large block size would be problematic for miners because the network bandwidth between China, where the majority of mining is done, and rest of the world is heavily restricted. Important proposals like these need to factor in all of the nuances of the global landscape.”

the bandwidth between China and rest of the world is <20MB every 10 mins?

I think the problem the Chinese miners are concerned about is that, because of their lower bandwidth, they are already at a bit of a disadvantage with block propagation time, which increases the likelihood that their mined blocks may be orphaned - and increasing the block size increases that problem.