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From: Luke Dashjr <luke@dashjr•org>
To: "Pavel Janík" <Pavel@janik•cz>
Cc: bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Hardfork to fix difficulty drop algorithm
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2016 15:14:35 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201603021514.36769.luke@dashjr.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B9C659DC-1954-45C2-B3E6-552A17CDD655@Janik.cz>

On Wednesday, March 02, 2016 3:05:08 PM Pavel Janík wrote:
> > the network. This would result in a significantly longer block interval,
> > which also means a higher per-block transaction volume, which could
> > cause the block size limit to legitimately be hit much sooner than
> > expected.
> 
> If this happens at all (the exchange rate of the coin can accomodate such
> expectation),

The exchange rate is not significantly influenced by these things. 
Historically, it seems fairly obvious that the difficulty has followed value, 
not value following difficulty.

> the local fee market will develop, fees will raise and complement mined
> coins, thus bringing more miners back to the game (together with expected
> higher exchange rate).

Depends on the hashrate drop, and tolerance for higher fees, both of which are 
largely unknown at this time. At least having code prepared for the negative 
scenarios in case of an emergency seems reasonable, even if we don't end up 
needing to deploy it.

Luke


  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-02 15:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-02 14:56 Luke Dashjr
2016-03-02 15:05 ` Pavel Janík
2016-03-02 15:14   ` Luke Dashjr [this message]
2016-03-02 15:24     ` Jérémie Dubois-Lacoste
     [not found]     ` <CAE-z3OUR8So2EM_EBeEerW-UPs0KY+whVB=jjFAHkW3xZPF2Hw@mail.gmail.com>
2016-03-02 15:54       ` Tier Nolan
2016-03-02 15:42 ` Luke Dashjr
2016-03-02 16:27   ` Paul Sztorc
2016-03-02 18:07     ` Tier Nolan
2016-03-02 19:01       ` Eric Voskuil
     [not found]         ` <56D74859.3090609@gmail.com>
2016-03-02 20:44           ` Eric Voskuil
2016-03-02 23:02         ` Peter Todd
2016-03-03  5:11           ` Dave Scotese
2016-03-03 10:14           ` Patrick Shirkey
2016-03-03 20:54           ` Eric Voskuil
2016-03-04 10:27             ` Tier Nolan
2016-03-02 15:48 ` Dave Hudson
2016-03-08 22:05   ` Bob McElrath
2016-03-09 18:30     ` Dave Hudson
2016-03-09 20:21       ` Bob McElrath
2016-03-09 23:24         ` Dave Hudson
2016-03-09 20:26       ` Paul Sztorc
2016-03-02 16:17 ` Bryan Bishop
2016-03-02 17:14 ` David A. Harding
2016-03-02 17:53   ` Gregory Maxwell
2016-03-02 19:34     ` David A. Harding
2016-03-03  1:06     ` Paul Sztorc
2016-03-09 17:58       ` Paul Sztorc
2016-03-02 18:20 ` Peter Todd
2016-03-03 18:27 ` Corey Haddad
2016-03-04  8:41   ` Henning Kopp
     [not found]     ` <CA+XQW1gfnXxxCod6cL=caGnEc66YOvaF6SJL=omUbMqwLNDP7g@mail.gmail.com>
2016-03-09 20:43       ` Paul Sztorc

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