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From: Peter Todd <pete@petertodd•org>
To: Filipe Farinha <filipe@ktorn•com>
Cc: bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Mempool size consensus + dynamic block size re-targetting
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 22:43:44 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150624024344.GA3647@savin.petertodd.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <558A14C3.2040908@ktorn.com>

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On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 10:24:03AM +0800, Filipe Farinha wrote:
> On 24/06/2015 10:15, Mark Friedenbach wrote:
> >
> >Anyone could lie.
> >
> True.
> What would be the incentive for the majority of transaction
> broadcasting full-nodes to lie about the mempool size?

It might help you to answer the following: If your mempool consensus
idea worked, could you use it to replace proof-of-work? Why? Why not?

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-06-24  2:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-24  2:02 Filipe Farinha
2015-06-24  2:15 ` Mark Friedenbach
2015-06-24  2:24   ` Filipe Farinha
2015-06-24  2:43     ` Peter Todd [this message]
2015-06-24  3:02       ` Filipe Farinha

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