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user-inactivated  ·  3181 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Bitcoin's mempool is over 20 MB

I've always thought it was a bad idea for people to load anything and everything into the blockchain with all of the various "apps" that had nothing to do with currency people had dreamed up, and I'm wondering if this is a symptom of that.





mk  ·  3180 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Well, from the beginning, it was expected that there would be no cap other than the limit of fees paid per transaction. Satoshi assumed that technology could handle the blocksize increase over time.

This cap is artificially small.