From: Simon Liu <simon@bitcartel•com>
To: Matt Corallo <lf-lists@mattcorallo•com>,
Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] On Hardforks in the Context of SegWit
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2016 14:36:47 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56B9187F.3040104@bitcartel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56B8EBF8.4050602@mattcorallo.com>
> 1) The segregated witness discount is changed from 75% to 50%. The block
> size limit (ie transactions + witness/2) is set to 1.5MB. This gives a
> maximum block size of 3MB and a "network-upgraded" block size of roughly
> 2.1MB. This still significantly discounts script data which is kept out
> of the UTXO set, while keeping the maximum-sized block limited.
What is the rationale for offering a discount?
Is there an economic basis for setting the original discount at 75%
instead of some other number?
If it's okay to arbitrarily reduce the discount by 1/3, what are the
actual boundary limits: 50% - 75% ? 40% - 80% ?
--Simon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-08 22:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-08 19:26 Matt Corallo
2016-02-08 20:37 ` jl2012
2016-02-08 22:24 ` Tao Effect
[not found] ` <CAAcC9yuJY3Lsd7Z0rx8TFLNT1fJLhrpxzKJREQ7FmdNNjdXJow@mail.gmail.com>
2016-02-09 2:45 ` Tao Effect
2016-02-08 22:36 ` Simon Liu [this message]
2016-02-08 22:54 ` Peter Todd
2016-02-09 9:00 ` Anthony Towns
2016-02-09 21:54 ` Matt Corallo
2016-02-09 22:00 ` Matt Corallo
2016-02-09 22:10 ` Luke Dashjr
2016-02-09 22:39 ` Matt Corallo
2016-02-10 5:16 ` Anthony Towns
2016-02-09 12:32 Nicolas Dorier
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