Bitcoin obviously needs big blocks. It is quite a bit worrisome to me that no blocksize increase was made during the "slow" period in late 2019 or early 2019. The down part of the market would be the least contentious time to implement a hard fork to give bitcoin room to grow on the next bitcoin boom. Looks like we are going to head into the next boom with the same transaction capacity (well a tiny little bit higher thanks to greater segwit adoption) as what was hurting bitcoin during the last boom. This is a serious problem.

Bitcoin doesn't need to go crazy and have 32mb or 128mb blocks or whatever the bitcoin-altcoin-forks have, but it very clearly needs to increase its transaction throughput capacity, and soon! I really thought there would be a concerted effort to increase that during the downtime of the market this cycle. Sadly there was no effort whatsoever.

Even if you think LN is gonna be the main use for everyday transactions in the future for bitcoin, that future is not now, and bitcoin needs more space in its blocks right now, and especially in the next couple of years as the bull market heats up. No amount of segwit adoption or exchange transaction batching is gonna keep blocks open and fees low during this bull run. Again, even if you are of the mind that LN is THE answer for bitcoin, the blocksize puts a severe restriction on getting money into the LN. For LN onboarding alone bitcoin needs larger blocksizes, and even if LN is the vast majority of transactions in the future, bitcoin txs need more blockspace NOW and even later when LN takes over normal on-chain non-LN-onboarding/offboarding txs will still be around of course, for moving between wallets or moving around large amounts of money or just one offs so even during LN non-LN associated onchain txs will need more space.

The only answer is to increase blocksize. The number of hard forks of bitcoin should be limited to a very small number very close to one, so bitcoin doesn't become some absurd untrustable constantly changing thing like BCH. I think either there needs to be a single hard fork that implements some automated blocksize increases or a very small number of increases in the future.

I haven't ever heard of an automated blocksize increase discussed, I've only ever heard of one-offs bitcoin discussed, but I think the automated increase is the way to go. That way only one hard fork is ever needed and blocksize increases become a stable thing that doesn't need to be debated anymore. I think the way to do it would be at every halving there is also some blocksize increase, perhaps starting at a 4x this next halving, and then each halving the blocksize increase itself halves, so it'd be 400% increase, 200%, 100%, 50%, 25%, 12.5%, and so on. Or adjust these numbers however you see fit, the numbers I put in here would have bitcoin blocksize (blockweight) reach a limit at around 19x the current capacity, though it should probably be a bit higher than that if bitcoin is going to become globally used in the decades to come. This would also allow blocksize to increase as network speeds increase so that propagation wouldn't be a problem so bitcoin would never be in danger of not being decentralized, and it would also storage tech time to keep up so that the bitcoin blockchain continues to be relatively small compared to a reasonable cost of storing the blockchain.

Не отчаивайся, ты тоже потенциально богатый человек. Армянские родственники твоей жены ещё не раз пожалеют, что не разглядели в тебе могучий потенциал к коммерции. Надо просто верить и продолжать гнуть свою линию.

This is false, ever since China cracked down on mining off of free hydro in China many ASICs left china. Look at the pool breakdown to get a rough idea.

Also the UASF/Segwit2x fight with these miners proved that the economic majority is really in charge.


It was precisely government regulation and policies that led to this financial crisis. If you don't believe so than go ahead and try and get a government to approve a sovereign cryptocurrency that competes with their fiat and let me know how well you do. Just the banks, right? Governments should be interested in protecting their citizens wealth against these banks by allowing capital flight and safe harbor , right?

если человек очень хочет купить он покупает из стакана на продажу

Счас есть все предпосылки, чтобы полететь к 5800 и выше. Битка по 4000 уже не будет. Чем ближе к халвингу, чем меньше надежд

Видел сегодня уже эту хуету в твиттере .  Самое забавное в ней то что на вертикальной линии в самой ее переломной точке вниз - там колебалось доминирование битка  от 70% до 85%
Так вот в этой точке  гуру Антоха Вайсман  орал что альтам кирдык и нужно сливать в ноль  
В нижней точке после той линии  через несколько месяцев был ATH у эфира 0.15  , даш ~ 0.14 и много кого еще . Вообщем тру альтсезон 2017 .
Это все что нам нужно знать об Антохе Вайсмане - в миру Tone Vays