# Gavin Andresen
# 2013-04-30 13:57:59
# https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=189792.msg1985439#msg1985439

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Network bandwidth is currently growing about 20% per year, or roughly doubling every four years. @p{par}

Satoshi's original code had a 32MB block size limit, which he dropped to 1MB as part of a bunch of band-aid fixes to make denial-of-service attacks harder. @p{par}

RE: density of full nodes:  In my opinion, if it is affordable to run a full node (less than, say, $100 per month in server costs@p{--} that is a trivial monthly cost for most businesses and some individuals) then we'll continue to see tens of thousands of full nodes. @p{par}

Median cost of a dedicated server with lots of bandwidth, disk and CPU is @p{(link}under $100/month these days@p{link)}, which would support a block size at least ten times the current maximum. @p{par}

And all of THAT is before even starting to think about possible optimizations (e.g. figure out how to mitigate the "insert malicious data" problem@p{--} maybe Peter Todd's security bonds would be helpful@p{--} and a shared DHT storing all valid transactions combined with bloom filters on connections could make it cheap for any one machine to be a fully validating node). @p{par}

Please, don't listen to all of the FUD being thrown around about raising the block size even before there is any solid proposal for what should be done. @p{par}