@alness @mriou It seems to me that we should formalize what the acceptable minimum specs are to run a node.
@alness @mriou That’s a slippery slope; there are “purists” who refuse to upgrade past Bitcoin Core ~0.7 IIRC
bencxr Interesting day watching/responding to the #Bitcoin stress test. Blocks consistently full, peak of 11.7k unconfirmed transactions.
@mriou @alness The perspective of engineers building a platform often conflicts with that of the engineers using the platform. ;-)
amcafee Yuck. In 1950 only 1 in 20 us workers needed a permit from the gov. Now about 1 in 3 do econ.st/1rSPufb #2MA
A nice set of p2pool stats hosted by @yaBTCn: http://t.co/ddpQrMZxfq
@kyletorpey @TuurDemeester Sure, I don’t see why not.
BIP: Increase Maximum Block Size, via @gavinandresen https://t.co/97D2mfS6bm
@kristovatlas At least @bramcohen admits that with full blocks, users will choose different payment mechanisms. AKA “not Bitcoin.”
@danlowe @Magnus919 @knucklesandwich @dawleywood Right, though I figure you wouldn’t want to simply copy them as they are being used.
It appears that CoinWallet is delivering on their promise to stress test the network today. https://t.co/bS5m8rwJ4q https://t.co/jbsklIHHx9