Oh yeah, one of the things I remember now regarding smaller blocks was bandwidth more than processor being an issue. There's a name (similar to how we have Moore's Law for processing) for a similar thing on transmission speed trajectory, and it's far slower a growth than Moore's Law (which is obviously not even a real law of nature itself). I remember that tidbit also being quite convincing. No need to reply, just wanted to get that off my chest.
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Nielsen's law. Which also is holding up quite well.
x200 since the introduction of the 1M "safety" limit.
Average household bandwidth in 2010: 5.4 Mbit/s
Average projected household bandwidth for 2026: 1 Gbit/s (which equals 1000 Mbit/s)
Knowing that the 1M limit was first reached in 2017, we could assume that 20-40M blocks would be just fine for today's bandwidth infrastructure.
BCH has 32M and from there a dynamic growth algo, but is still utilised under 1M and never has been attacked in the way feared by Hal (and Satoshi).
Average where? US? Seems high for Uganda or El Salvador.
