Re: [Bitcoin-development] [Bulk] Re: Fwd: Block Size Increase Requirements

2015-05-31 Thread gb
be able to handle 20MB blocks no problem; if I round up to > 100MB per block that works out to 1.3Mbps. > > > We also use Aliyun and Linode cloud services for block > propagation. As of May 2015, the price is 0.13 U.S. dollars > per GB for >

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Block Size Increase Requirements

2015-05-30 Thread gb
Linear growth is indeed the 'simplest' model for growth so removes concerns of complexity using such a growth model. Seems like it might be a safe compromise between exponential growth, zero growth and buys some time to observe the longer term scale network behaviour. A simple linear growth 'hard

Re: [Bitcoin-development] [Bulk] Re: Proposed additional options for pruned nodes

2015-05-12 Thread gb
This seems like a good place to add in an idea I had about partially-connected nodes that are able to throttle bandwidth demands. While we will be having partial-blockchain nodes with a spectrum of storage options the requirement to be connected is somewhat binary, I think many users manually throt