.@Truthcoin drops a stunner on Bitcoin's long term security budget. Outstanding as usual
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Replying to @nic__carter @Truthcoin
Lots of dubious assumptions: * Tx fees have historically risen and fallen with price, but they assume they are disconnected * L1 is a payment rail (nope, it's a settlement layer, and no altcoins are generally not as reliable and secure a substitute)
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why is L1 a settlement rail (at the obvious expense of payments), is this primarily due to block size?
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Lower block size --> more and better connected full nodes --> more trust-minimized than alternatives. People are rightly more comfortable sending higher-value txs over Bitcoin than over alternatives.
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just curious, what is your assumed "best" long term block size?
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It's variable, but based on security, incl. value of txs and political conditions, so not in a way that can be put into a trust-minimized algorithm, so the best strategy I know of is to pick a predictable size with big engineering margins, stick to it, and design L2s around it.
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