Huh? That makes no sense at all. I have no idea why Satoshi chose a 1MB limit. P...

		lisper on July 14, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bitcoin – Potential Network Disruption on July 31s... Huh? That makes no sense at all. I have no idea why Satoshi chose a 1MB limit. Probably for the same reason he chose a 21M BTC limit on the total number of bitcoins that can be mined: both are arbitrary numbers that he pulled out of a hat. But the next time I see him I'll be sure to ask.

probably more to it than a hat. She's more clever than that