Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] The Excessive-Block Gate: How a Bitcoin Unlimited Node Deals With Large Blocks

From: Tom Zander <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2016 08:47:00 +0100

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.
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