From: Tom Zander <tomz@freedommail•ch>
To: "t. khan" <teekhan42@gmail•com>
Cc: Bitcoin Protocol Discussion <bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP - 'Block75' - New algorithm
Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2017 21:35:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1944321.hguq3JoYe1@cherry> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGCNRJp71NCxQ3jk4hu-kXF94RiqfeD=AVnxR37TrJ7bDG310w@mail.gmail.com>
On Monday, 2 January 2017 14:32:24 CET t. khan wrote:
> Math should decide the max block size, not humans (miners in this
> case). The goal of Block75 is to manage the max block size without any
> human intervention.
If the input of your math is completely free and human created, how does it
follow that it was math that created it ?
Why do you want it math created anyway?
> A maximum block size is necessary to prevent a single nefarious miner from
> creating a ridiculously large block which would break the network.
A maximum is needed, yes. But does it have to be part of the protocol?
A simple policy which is set by node operators (reject block if greater than
X bytes) will solve this just fine, no?
--
Tom Zander
Blog: https://zander.github.io
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-02 20:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-02 18:04 t. khan
2017-01-02 19:01 ` Tom Zander
2017-01-02 19:32 ` t. khan
2017-01-02 20:35 ` Tom Zander [this message]
2017-01-02 21:05 ` t. khan
2017-01-02 22:33 ` Tom Zander
2017-01-02 21:19 ` Luke Dashjr
2017-01-02 22:01 ` Tom Zander
2017-01-03 14:28 ` t. khan
2017-02-13 11:21 ` Hampus Sjöberg
2017-01-02 20:04 ` Luke Dashjr
2017-01-02 20:41 ` t. khan
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