From: "Luke-Jr" <luke@dashjr•org>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@exmulti•com>
Cc: bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Punishing empty blocks?
Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 00:57:38 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201205250057.39749.luke@dashjr.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+8xBpfOh-61z_7e1jzz7ZYV4eiCCi=ruQbKBuQp1juuSdYdbQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Friday, May 25, 2012 12:51:09 AM Jeff Garzik wrote:
> On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 8:45 PM, Luke-Jr <luke@dashjr•org> wrote:
> > On Thursday, May 24, 2012 4:33:12 PM Jeff Garzik wrote:
> >> Comments? It wouldn't be a problem if these no-TX blocks were not
> >> already getting frequent (1 in 20).
> >
> > FWIW, based on statistics for Eligius's past 100 blocks, it seems 10% (1
> > in 10) of 1-txn blocks is not actually unreasonable. This also means
> > these 1-txn mined blocks are not necessarily harming Bitcoin
> > intentionally. Anyone care to figure out the math for how fast miners
> > need to finish processing transactions to reduce the number of 1txn
> > blocks?
>
> Look at the time since last block, and correlate with the number of
> non-spam TX's in the memory pool at the time. It is obvious which
> ones are quick blocks (<60 seconds since last block, no big deal) and
> which ones are the lazy miners (> 120 seconds since last block).
Block times are not accurate enough for that.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-25 0:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-24 16:33 Jeff Garzik
2012-05-24 17:05 ` Arthur Britto
2012-05-24 17:13 ` Joel Joonatan Kaartinen
2012-05-24 17:23 ` Jeff Garzik
2012-05-24 17:27 ` Robert McKay
2012-05-24 18:16 ` Jeff Garzik
2012-05-24 20:31 ` Luke-Jr
2012-05-24 21:00 ` Jeff Garzik
2012-05-25 0:45 ` Luke-Jr
2012-05-25 0:51 ` Jeff Garzik
2012-05-25 0:57 ` Luke-Jr [this message]
2012-05-25 1:17 ` Jeff Garzik
2012-05-25 7:47 ` Christian Decker
2012-05-25 13:44 ` Alan Reiner
2012-05-25 14:00 ` Peter Vessenes
2012-05-25 1:00 ` Gregory Maxwell
2012-05-26 5:03 ` Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn
2012-05-26 11:52 ` Stefan Thomas
2012-05-28 14:54 ` Peter Vessenes
[not found] ` <1338222334.48856.YahooMailNeo@web121001.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>
2012-05-28 16:25 ` [Bitcoin-development] Fw: " Amir Taaki
2012-05-29 8:52 ` [Bitcoin-development] " Michael Grønager
2012-05-29 14:47 ` Luke-Jr
2012-05-29 15:05 ` Peter Vessenes
2012-05-29 15:18 ` Luke-Jr
2012-05-29 15:28 ` Peter Vessenes
2012-05-29 15:34 ` Luke-Jr
2012-05-29 15:36 ` Peter Vessenes
2012-05-29 15:39 ` Luke-Jr
2012-05-29 15:45 ` Peter Vessenes
2012-05-29 16:30 ` Rebroad (sourceforge)
2012-05-29 15:33 ` Gregory Maxwell
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