Correct. We have to accept the fact that the future of the blockchain
is on the servers with specs able to match the blocks being processed
by miners. Otherwise if we continue this path of sticking to a block
size limit, then transaction fees will become very expensive.

Bigger blocks or costly transactions. The choice is naturally clear.

On 09/09/13 22:30, Robert Williamson wrote:
> The problem is we've moved way past the point where practically
> every node is also mining and attempting to gain the transaction
> fees, a node might have an expense when it transmits a large 10kb
> transaction to multiple peers, but it will never have a chance to
> gain the reward from whatever transaction fees might be in the tx.