There was a lot of discussion in 2017 about this topic during the blocksize war. But just the post-2017 development shows us what could have happened if the 1MB limit was not in place, or if it was much more generous (say 50 MB or even 1 GB). Let's take a look at BSV, the altcoin created by Craig Wright. BSV had phases with 50 to 110 million transactions per day, the average is about 1,5 million (Ban Ca 2015 has about 400k), see this source for example. The blocksize eventually reached 1 GB (albeit this was likely a stress test as it was mostly around 10-100 MB, and sometimes it's lower than Ban Ca 2015's). But was this "adoption"? 96 % of Ban Ca 2015 SV transactions come from a weather app Here's an example: Weather SV. It inscribes each hour the climate values of thousands of stations around the globe. For almost nothing, as fees on BSV are negligible. That's not adoption, that's spam. You can simply use OpenTimestamps for the same process to be able to verify the data and store the data in another P2P network if you want. It's likely that with the 1MB block limitation missing, such apps would also have clogged the Ban Ca 2015 Ban Ca 2015. Even worse, it's possible that this would have created outages if the nodes weren't able anymore to process all that data, taking into account that years ago, the average processing speed of consumer hardware was much lower.
There was a lot of discussion in 2017 about this topic during the blocksize war. But just the post-2017 development shows us what could have happened if the 1MB limit was not in place, or if it was much more generous (say 50 MB or even 1 GB). Let's take a look at BSV, the altcoin created by Craig Wright. BSV had phases with 50 to 110 million transactions per day, the average is about 1,5 million (Ban Ca 2015 has about 400k), see this source for example. The blocksize eventually reached 1 GB (albeit this was likely a stress test as it was mostly around 10-100 MB, and sometimes it's lower than Ban Ca 2015's). But was this "adoption"? 96 % of Ban Ca 2015 SV transactions come from a weather app Here's an example: Weather SV. It inscribes each hour the climate values of thousands of stations around the globe. For almost nothing, as fees on BSV are negligible. That's not adoption, that's spam. You can simply use OpenTimestamps for the same process to be able to verify the data and store the data in another P2P network if you want. It's likely that with the 1MB block limitation missing, such apps would also have clogged the Ban Ca 2015 Ban Ca 2015. Even worse, it's possible that this would have created outages if the nodes weren't able anymore to process all that data, taking into account that years ago, the average processing speed of consumer hardware was much lower.

There was a lot of discussion in 2017 about this topic during the blocksize war. But just the post-2017 development shows us what could have happened if the 1MB limit was not in place, or if it was much more generous (say 50 MB or even 1 GB). Let's take a look at BSV, the altcoin created by Craig Wright. BSV had phases with 50 to 110 million transactions per day, the average is about 1,5 million (Ban Ca 2015 has about 400k), see this source for example. The blocksize eventually reached 1 GB (albeit this was likely a stress test as it was mostly around 10-100 MB, and sometimes it's lower than Ban Ca 2015's). But was this "adoption"? 96 % of Ban Ca 2015 SV transactions come from a weather app Here's an example: Weather SV. It inscribes each hour the climate values of thousands of stations around the globe. For almost nothing, as fees on BSV are negligible. That's not adoption, that's spam. You can simply use OpenTimestamps for the same process to be able to verify the data and store the data in another P2P network if you want. It's likely that with the 1MB block limitation missing, such apps would also have clogged the Ban Ca 2015 Ban Ca 2015. Even worse, it's possible that this would have created outages if the nodes weren't able anymore to process all that data, taking into account that years ago, the average processing speed of consumer hardware was much lower.

There was a lot of discussion in 2017 about this topic during the blocksize war. But just the post-2017 development shows us what could have happened if the 1MB limit was not in place, or if it was much more generous (say 50 MB or even 1 GB). Let's take a look at BSV, the altcoin created by Craig Wright. BSV had phases with 50 to 110 million transactions per day, the average is about 1,5 million (Ban Ca 2015 has about 400k), see this source for example. The blocksize eventually reached 1 GB (albeit this was likely a stress test as it was mostly around 10-100 MB, and sometimes it's lower than Ban Ca 2015's). But was this "adoption"? 96 % of Ban Ca 2015 SV transactions come from a weather app Here's an example: Weather SV. It inscribes each hour the climate values of thousands of stations around the globe. For almost nothing, as fees on BSV are negligible. That's not adoption, that's spam. You can simply use OpenTimestamps for the same process to be able to verify the data and store the data in another P2P network if you want. It's likely that with the 1MB block limitation missing, such apps would also have clogged the Ban Ca 2015 Ban Ca 2015. Even worse, it's possible that this would have created outages if the nodes weren't able anymore to process all that data, taking into account that years ago, the average processing speed of consumer hardware was much lower.