Shut your redikulus mowth <| sep |> It means that a 600 calorie milkshake at Starbucks would cost $ 7 instead of $ 5 in places like New York or LA <| sep |> Assuming , for the sake of argument , that transactions will pay the same fees per kB that they do now , if miners accept the SegWit discount proposed by Core , they will collect 25 % of 70 % 14 % more fee revenue than they do now . Yet , if they don ' t accept SegWit but go for unlimited blocks , they get 70 % more fees for 1 . 7 MB blocks . So with equal cost , and they get 56 % more profit . And the beautiful part is that there is no limit at 1 . 7 MB . A miner can grow together with the market and get more and more fees . Your solution doesn ' t sound so fantastic to me compared to what would have happened years ago if Core wasn ' t blocking progress with SegWit .