Blocksize - free market or managed economy?

[Matias]

Could you please explain to newbie, what is the problem with increasing block size? What harm would it make, if block size was e.g. 2Mb?

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Block_size_limit_controversy

orphan rate amplification is somehow be addressed with the implementation of subchain

i think some of those concerns are not even a real threat, they are a bit magnified...primarily satoshi has limited it for ddos issues

From that article "Larger blocks make full nodes more expensive to operate". This refers to running Bitcoin core, right?

What difference would it make, if block is 1 or 2 Mb?

[Amph]

Could you please explain to newbie, what is the problem with increasing block size? What harm would it make, if block size was e.g. 2Mb?

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Block_size_limit_controversy

orphan rate amplification is somehow be addressed with the implementation of subchain

i think some of those concerns are not even a real threat, they are a bit magnified...primarily satoshi has limited it for ddos issues

From that article "Larger blocks make full nodes more expensive to operate". This refers to running Bitcoin core, right?

What difference would it make, if block is 1 or 2 Mb?

probably related to bandwith, but they are not talking about real numbers for every of those point, i'm sure they are not a big concern, we have no full node in any case, with or without a block limit, so for me it looks like pure fud

[Quantus]

Our network is being run on the back of laptops from the 90s and 35 dollar Raspberry_Pi computers the size of credit cards that don't have enough RAM to hold backlogs of the Mempool (the waiting list of bitcoin)
 Our users are connecting to this network over very low bandwidth connections preventing them from running full nodes and participating in securing the network. Raising the block size would raise the bandwidth and hardware requirements for all full node client users and miners.

[rebuilder]

Our network is being run on the back of laptops from the 90s and 35 dollar Raspberry_Pi computers the size of credit cards that don't have enough RAM to hold backlogs of the Mempool (the waiting list of bitcoin)
 Our users are connecting to this network over very low bandwidth connections preventing them from running full nodes and participating in securing the network. Raising the block size would raise the bandwidth and hardware requirements for all full node client users and miners.

Is that the case? Can you point to statistics on the hardware capabilities of currently running full nodes?

[Matias]

My wag is that nodes are run by persons, who have at least average bandwidth and average hardware.

I have bitcoin core running on my PC. Of course I could go to garage and dig my ten years old laptop for this, but why.

If this is the main reason not to implement larger block size, it sounds very far reached.