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Dogecoin has the same design flaw of a hardcoded block size as bitcoin, and would hit the same limitation if it became popular (although, dogecoin mines a block every 1 minute as opposed to bitcoin's 10, so it could support 10x more tps before hitting said limit).

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By “hard coded” you mean “a variable” though.

EDIT: wow, sorry Dogecoin fans, I double-checked my notes and you’re right, it’s actually some kind of universal constant that can’t be changed

If the variable doesn’t change, it isn’t variable, is it?

It's constant

There is one speaker who Talks about refractorating, sorry I forgot his name, who always leads with this: [if we changed this constant the function could also do this and we can save a lot of code.] "And what do we call a constant that changes? A variable!" And than he uses it as a parameter. Reminded me of him.

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