# Gavin Andresen # 2013-04-28 17:37:30 # https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=189792.msg1967890#msg1967890 My reaction: stop spreading FUD. @p{par} "small mining pools will go out of business" @p{--} give me a break! My back-of-the-envelope calculations say that anybody willing to spend a few hundred dollars a year on a dedicated server with a high-bandwidth connection can support a MUCH, MUCH larger block size. @p{par} The block size will be raised. Your video will just make a lot of people worried about nothing, in exactly the same way Luke-Jr's BIP17 proposal last year (and his hyperbolic rhetoric about BIP16) did nothing but cause a tempest in a teapot. @p{brk}