I know solid state drives are loved by many but I don't see why?
Obviously it uses flash technology which is very fast but it is still limited to the supposed 10,000 read/writes that flash technology is said to produce at a maximum. With this, it would be useless to use an SSD for an operating system/files/programs as the drive would have to be replaced after becoming corrupted. Also, the price of a 1tb ssd of a minimum of £200 is also quite rediculous. However, hybrid drives, for me, seam a good idea as long as the flash partition is backed up on the drive!

2 Mb. Just because it's politically easier to implement. It'll buy us some time.
Time to implement something different, like lightning.

My favorite one - the solution that was suggested at the conference: introduce the second type of blocks that contain transactions only and issued 60 times more often, every 10 seconds or so. Those blocks are not for determining winner of reward, so they won't cause orphan problems. This solution will give us 60 times more space for transactions and reduce confirmation time 60-fold!  I think it is the perfect solution, even better than lightning, since it's not hub-based.

Nonsense. Most domestic connections will struggle massively at just 4MB average, and that's in the US. 8MB is the end of home desktop nodes in most of the world short term.

Solid reasoning spazzdla! In other words, it's a slightly arbitrary decision to some extent, although I'm sure some kind of useful, if not definitive, metrics could be tested to add some context.

And to be honest, I kind of prefer this argument to any of the technical ones, but maybe I'm just a bit worn out with the BIP101 shills. It's hard work arguing with sophists.

8x more current limit is kind of a massive jump considering some users are already experience trouble supporting their own nodes under current 1MB setting...

Remember the last crisis almost wiped out all banks, and it was only the FED's quick intervention that saved them.

The next crisis will be the big one. Which could come as early as next spring, or after US elections (as no politician wants crisis on their election day)

I still have pretty much the same opinion: the best way to please everyone is a dynamic blocksize. Not sure what it should depend on, but it's a more flexible solution that may come across almost every user out there.

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Why 8?

Exactly how do you think that could happen if the dynamic system is based on the size of the previous block (for example)? That's not directly possible. As I've already said dynamic != miners voting. Miners voting is just one option of a dynamic block size.

Every single proposal that has been made has issues and every single proposal that is going to be made in the future will have it's own issues as well. Nothing is perfect, and we can't just rush into unexplored territory. A dynamic block size system like the one in the BIP100 could possibly be cheated for an example (this is just one of the problems that has to be dealt with before one could even consider its implementation in the main chain).

Lol what's wrong with 4. I'm not sure that the 4MB option is getting a fair hearing  


(tip: split "miners decide/dynamic" into separate categories, both have separate BIPs that could arguably represent each voting option)

Dogecoin was a joke gone to far..

In my opinion it was a great tool to get the redditard mongols into crypto..
However.. with that comes all the problems with that ecosystem.

LTC all the way.. Doge offered nothing but a laugh and getting the devs rich sadly..

I'm not 100% convinced that it is necessary.. I just hope they don't go and screw it up..

Guys, it's almost 2016, no one cares about XT. Also, Gmaxwell is doing solid progress with the sidechains, it's comming soon.. LN will follow after. I think we still have margin. And make no mistake I still want bigger blocks, but not on a fixed increase based on a fairy tale (no one knows if 8 mb increases every 8 years make sense because we can't predict the future).