From: Simon Liu <simon@bitcartel•com>
To: Andy Chase <theandychase@gmail•com>,
Tier Nolan <tier.nolan@gmail•com>,
jgarzik@gmail•com, bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP 100 specification
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2015 08:37:33 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55E9BABD.7080505@bitcartel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAxp-m93s5qDrs+1OHeSog+9=HV=XKs14Vs3jf4RdqSR9tA8xQ@mail.gmail.com>
Maybe grab some code from BIP101 ? It permits block messages > 2MB,
while retaining the current limit of 2 MB imposed on other network
messages. The 32 MB limit was patched a few months ago.
Links to code:
https://www.reddit.com/r/bitcoinxt/comments/3in5mm/psa_correction_to_btcchina_letter_which_states/
On 09/04/2015 12:53 AM, Andy Chase via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> The 32Mb limit is
> here: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/src/serialize.h#L25
>
> It's to keep the message size small enough that messages can be
> serialized in memory.
>
> Jeff if you decide to lift the 32MB limit (you really should, unless
> your plan is to potentially hard force another Blocksize discussion
> again which might be okay). I suggest having the 32MB ceiling auto-raise
> according to a exponential factor (1.5?) starting 1 year from now.
>
> Basically hard limit ceiling 2016-2017: 32 MB
> Hard limit ceiling 2018+: 32*((currentYear-2018)*1.5) MB
>
> The factor could be 2 like BIP-101 but I imagine you will want to be
> more conservative. The delay time could also be longer if you think it
> will take longer to fix the message size issue across all implementations.
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-04 15:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-03 3:33 Jeff Garzik
2015-09-03 4:45 ` Dave Scotese
2015-09-03 7:57 ` jl2012
2015-09-03 11:20 ` Btc Drak
2015-09-03 14:34 ` Jeff Garzik
2015-09-03 15:58 ` Btc Drak
2015-09-03 16:13 ` Jorge Timón
2015-09-03 11:59 ` Tier Nolan
2015-09-03 16:32 ` jl2012
2015-09-03 16:35 ` Jeff Garzik
2015-09-03 17:32 ` Btc Drak
2015-09-03 17:52 ` Peter Todd
2015-09-04 7:53 ` Andy Chase
2015-09-04 15:37 ` Simon Liu [this message]
2015-09-04 15:40 ` Btc Drak
2015-09-03 14:35 ` Jeff Garzik
2015-09-03 19:40 ` Simon Liu
2015-09-03 20:15 ` Oliver Petruzel
2015-09-03 20:34 ` Dave Scotese
2015-09-04 3:50 ` Peter Todd
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