From: Tom Zander <tomz@freedommail•ch>
To: Bitcoin Protocol Discussion <bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] The Excessive-Block Gate: How a Bitcoin Unlimited Node Deals With Large Blocks
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2016 08:47:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <14381847.eEjaEFYMVs@cherry> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6AAD09CF-937E-4D35-B70A-CFDAB84A6B32@gmx.com>
On Saturday, 26 November 2016 15:35:49 CET Peter R via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> Therefore, it is in the best interest of miners to all set the same block
> size limit (and reliably signal in their coinbase TX what that limit is,
> as done by Bitcoin Unlimited miners).
As a point of interest, last week I merged into Classic the same concept.
Classic will now respect the EB limit and put it in the coinbase.
> (This actually surprised me because the only way they could lose money is
> if some _other_ miner wasted even more money by purposely mining a
> destined-to-be-orphaned block.)
Your surprise may come from the difference in cost vs. expected earnings of
creating a block, which is quite significant.
--
Tom Zander
Blog: https://zander.github.io
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-11-27 7:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-11-22 16:31 Peter R
2016-11-25 1:39 ` Sergio Demian Lerner
2016-11-25 15:25 ` Tom Zander
2016-11-25 22:31 ` Sergio Demian Lerner
2016-11-25 23:45 ` Sergio Demian Lerner
2016-11-26 15:01 ` Tom Zander
2016-11-26 23:35 ` Peter R
2016-11-27 7:47 ` Tom Zander [this message]
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