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>>15964091
he basically made the whole thing

>>15964100
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/commit/a30b56ebe76ffff9f9cc8a6667186179413c6349#diff-23cfe05393c8433e384d2c385f06ab93R18

behold the bane of our existence. everything around it is just excuses not to just fucking increase the size.

trivia: Hal Finney suggested the limit, it wasn't satoshi's idea originally
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=946236.msg10388435#msg10388435
>But all 3 of us agreed that 1MB had to be temporary because it would never scale.

the max block size was implemented as flood protection, a temporary fix while the cost of 1 BTC was so low than anybody could create 10k transactions with no real world cost, which would "flood" the network. today it is not needed because such an attack has an actual real world cost associated with it and would not last long.