# Is it time to increase the blocksize cap?

**URL:** <https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/is-it-time-to-increase-the-blocksize-cap/941>\
**Category:** Philosophy\
**Created:** [June 3, 2024, 5:02pm UTC](https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/is-it-time-to-increase-the-blocksize-cap/941 "2024-06-03T17:02:35Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 4, 2024, 3:33pm UTC](https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/is-it-time-to-increase-the-blocksize-cap/941/8 "2024-06-04T15:33:21Z")

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Never.

A batch open of 50 channels takes ~2k vbytes

A day has 144k vbytes

Thus we could open 3M channels a day, or 1BN channels **per year**

Nodes willing to wait days for a channel batch may get them **nearly free** as they’re subsidized by larger and high time preference ones

Undoubtedly closures will cost more than opens, but that’s also optimal from an incentives perspective

> are a handful of developers

Seems you have no idea how any of this works, good luck changing the network with a handful of developers

> Bitcoin as a tool for human rights

Sound money is a human right, everything else is downstream of that.

> a $5 per week family

Bitcoin being better money doesn’t help people that **don’t have money** , it does however help them earn it permissionlessly.

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