On 6/27/2015 at 1:04 PM, "Wladimir J. van der Laan" <laa...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Then you won't risk the other 'passengers' who don't consent to it.

But you can look at it the other way: what about risking the 'passengers' when 
the plane suddenly doesn't fly anymore? 

Increasing block limit increases the risk of centralization, but it also keeps 
the current status quo of blocks not being filled, rather then risking an 
unknown option of hitting the limit hard.
 

>... and pretending is only going to cause damage by creating false 
>expectations, or eventually even double-spending possibility because of 
>conflicting forks.

So you personally see the risks of a hard-fork outweigh the risks of not 
increasing the block size.

It's a valid opinion, but you probably don't want to decide the fate of Bitcoin 
single-handedly by denying any change, which is not a technical emergency.

That's why there should be a mechanism where the whole community can vote. 
Lacking that, that's what Gavin and Mike are doing: creating their own 
mechanism for consensus changes.

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