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If bitcoin went the big block route, what would the total size of the bitcoin blockchain be today? Anyone know?

Assuming whatever the most accepted increase proposal was at the time.

I think we'd be at 8MB blocks, and mostly unfilled until inscriptions. So total size would be not much more then what we have now, but potential growth rate of nearly 500GB/year going forward and network strain would lead to less decentralization

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HoloKat 2y ago

Would they be unfilled though without lightning?

Nice and Kind Vic 2y ago

Good point. If lightning didn't exist then I think there would be more on chain transactions.

HoloKat 2y ago

But maybe not 🤔

Nice and Kind Vic 2y ago

It's all hypothetical. Without lightning, nodes are simpler to run, and there'd be more incentive to conjoin while fees could be lower from less fee pressure from bigger blocks.

A fools errand though as we're on this course and scale much better as a result.