Who is for (and against) expanding the block size reasonably soon?

[theZerg]

Let's make a list. Include name, company and URL that "proves" it (prefer primary sources). I'll move your data to this first message.

FOR:

Brian Armstrong, CEO Coinbase


Stephen Pair, CEO BitPay
https://medium.com/@spair/increasing-the-block-size-limit-85ff236fc516


Wences Cesares, CEO of Xapo
Mike Belshe, CEO of BitGo
John McDonnell, CEO of Bitnet
Sam Cole, CEO of KnCMiner
Jeremy Allaire, CEO of Circle
Sean Neville, President of Circle
Peter Smith, CEO of Blockchain.info
Charles Cascarilla, CEO itbit.com
http://blog.blockchain.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Industry-Block-Size-letter-All-Signed.pdf
(not primary source) http://bitcorati.com/2015/08/24/bitgo-xapo-bitnet-kncminer-circle-blockchain-info-and-bitpay-support-bip-101-for-bitcoin-block-size-increase/

Jihan Wu, Co-founder of BITMAIN.

AntPool,
F2Pool,
BTCChina,
BW Mining,
Huobi
(non-primary, english) http://cointelegraph.com/news/114577/chinese-mining-pools-propose-alternative-8-mb-block-size
(primary source, not english) http://www.8btc.com/blocksize-increase-2

Nic Cary, Blockchain.info

Andreas Antonopoulos CTO Third Key Solutions

Alan Reiner, CEO Armory
http://sourceforge.net/p/bitcoin/mailman/message/34093337/

Henry Brade CEO Bittiraha.fi
https://twitter.com/Technom4ge/status/596334370803326978

Joel Lehtonen, Kryptoradio
https://twitter.com/koodilehto/status/596675967667568641

BX.in.th
https://twitter.com/BitcoinThai/status/605022509101023232

Jameson Lopp, BitGo engineer
https://twitter.com/lopp/status/605041173439209472

Aaron Voisine CEO Breadwallet
http://sourceforge.net/p/bitcoin/mailman/message/34096857/

OKCoin
https://twitter.com/okcoinbtc/status/598412795240009728

BTC Guild founder, Eleuthria
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/370rko/21_inc_engineer_everyone_assumes_humans_will_be/crjfnpg?context=3

WEAKLY FOR:

Tyler Winklevoss, Gemini
https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3nu7gj/we_are_cameron_and_tyler_winklevoss_but_you/cvrc7ln

AGAINST:

amir taaki, unSystem, libbitcoin, darkwallet
https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20150908.203305.54f1f128.en.html

mircea popescu, MPex
http://trilema.com/2015/lets-address-some-of-the-more-common-pseudo-arguments-raised-by-the-very-stupid-people-that-like-the-gavin-scamcoin-proposal/

GreenAddress
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/35anax/list_of_bitcoin_services_that_support_increasing/cr2mq84

Bitcoinpaygate
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/37y8wm/list_of_bitcoin_services_that_supportoppose/crqsnqp

Bitrated founder Nadav Ivgi
https://twitter.com/shesek/status/605005384026177537

David Francois, CTO of Paymium
http://fr.anco.is/2015/gavineries/

 

[sickpig]

isn't there a letter signed by 7 (8?) entities in favour of block max size increase? other than the ones you already mentioned circle, knc miner, xapo comes to mind.

I will try to find out the doc and I'll post reference here.

 

[cypherdoc]

everybody in that letter Armstrong links to

 

[sickpig]

stupid me, somewhat I didn't manage to read the link. sorry for the noise. still we should add the stament done by chinese miners: http://cointelegraph.com/news/114577/chinese-mining-pools-propose-alternative-8-mb-block-size

 

[theZerg]

Ok, I think I have both of those letters.

If anybody can read the primary source of that letter and confirm the translation that would be great.


How about merchants? Any statements from Gyft (they will need bigger blocks to put their cards on the blockchain), newegg, tigerdirect, dell?

Any major holders sign a statement with their coins?

 

[sickpig]

maybe it should be worthy to search for Byrne (overstock CEO) statements, even if I don't remember anything from him on that matter.

100% against: mircea popescu and his crew, amir taaki.
sources: trilema.com and https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20150908.203305.54f1f128.en.html

 

[cypherdoc]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/37y8wm/list_of_bitcoin_services_that_supportoppose/

 

[theZerg]

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[sickpig]

@theZerg taaki is most known for dark wallet, libbitcoin and stealth address implementation, rather than been part of unsystem.

add: on a recent reddit IAmA winklevoss twin show to be for a block size increase, mildly though. https://reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3nu7gj/we_are_cameron_and_tyler_winklevoss_but_you/

 

[ladoga]

I've been reading stuff like this...
...and wondering why is it that these companies won't launch bigblocks nodes to support their goals? Currently the node count is so small that companies like BitPay could have a huge effect.

Then miners would have something to think about.

 

[lebing]

Lebing is for an increase.

 

[Peter R]

Welcome to the forum, @lebing! I've always enjoyed your posts and positive attitude.

 

[lebing]

Thanks Peter! Same to you as well. Thanks especially for your considerable contributions =)

 

[priestc]

I think there is a group of people who are all friends with each other, and who are also connected to Blockstream who want to keep the block size small. Literally everyone else outside of this circle of friends wants the blocksize to increase. That clique is very powerful within the bitcoin community, as many of them own many of the community venues such as irc, reddit and bitcointalk. My experience has been that internet communities fade over time, so it's only a matter of time before all of these people find other more interesting irc channels to "inhabit". As time goes on, this friend group will fade away and what will be left are communities like this one where people's values regarding blocksize are much different.

 

[cypherdoc]

@priestc

that's an interesting way to describe it. i think you're right; they probably are all friends. i wonder which came first friendship or Blockstream. if i had to guess it was probably the former.

 

[Windowly]

I've been reading stuff like this...
...and wondering why is it that these companies won't launch bigblocks nodes to support their goals? Currently the node count is so small that companies like BitPay could have a huge effect.

Then miners would have something to think about.

That's a very good idea.