No, I really don’t think it was.
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in hindsight, it feels like it but it is what it is now. not really possible to rewind and replay an alternate reality.
Maybe, but given transaction growth at the time I think it was pretty clearly not the wrong decision. Given today maybe, but today isn’t important either, it’s five years from now, and it’s still unclear.
More importantly, the “effective size” is not 4mb, it’s closer to 1.3mb
i may need to be educated here, but can I do the initial download and verification without having to fetch the entire 4mb of data for the blocks that are full of inscriptions?
Full of inscriptions it’s 4mb, if people were actually transacting it’s closer to 1.3. Ultimately it’s just 4M*WU*, measuring in mb is useless.
Real transactions take a lot more resources for a full node to process than inscriptions, the costing is (roughly) correct here.