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comment by mk
mk  ·  3231 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Bitcoin's mempool is over 20 MB

Well, from the beginning, it was expected that there would be no cap other than the limit of fees paid per transaction. Satoshi assumed that technology could handle the blocksize increase over time.

This cap is artificially small.