From: Douglas Roark <joroark@vt•edu>
To: bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Hard fork proposal from last week's meeting
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 10:50:42 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8be6a2dc-a397-6cc5-e5d4-4c514f8f5b94@vt.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFzgq-xnXw6efaEurLcgMQQwwr7YitrJ3vZ8i+Ha0MbnVzUKhg@mail.gmail.com>
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On 2017/3/28 10:31, Wang Chun via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> The basic idea is, let's stop the debate for whether we should upgrade
> to 2MB, 8MB or 32MiB. 32MiB is well above any proposals' upper limit,
> so any final decision would be a soft fork to this already deployed
> release. If by 2020, we still agree 1MB is enough, it can be changed
> back to 1MB limit and it would also a soft fork on top of that.
While I think this idea isn't bad in and of itself, there is an
assumption being made that the community would come to consensus
regarding a future soft fork. This, IMO, is a dangerous assumption.
Failure would potentially leave the network at a hard fork well past any
current proposal. It would also potentially lead to miners becoming
hostile players and making political demands. ("Soft fork down to X MB
or I'll shut down 15% of the network hashrate and work to shut down more
elsewhere.") I'd hope we can all agree that such a scenario would be
terrible.
I do agree that the idea of giving everybody plenty of time to plan is
critical. (Telecom providers need months, if not years, to plan for even
simple upgrades, which often are not as simple as they look on paper.) I
just think this proposal, while well-meaning, comes across as a bit of a
trojan horse as-is. I can't get behind it, although it could potentially
be molded into something else that's interesting, e.g., Johnson Lau's
Spoonnet. Fork-to-minimum, while introducing its own potential problems,
would put much less pressure on full nodes, and on the ecosphere as a
whole if the max needed to be soft forked down.
(I'd also like to see SegWit go live so that we can get an idea of how
much pressure there really is on the network, thereby giving us a better
idea of how high we can go. I still think we're flying a bit blind in
that regard.)
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2017-03-28 16:59 Wang Chun
2017-03-28 17:13 ` Matt Corallo
2017-03-29 8:45 ` Jared Lee Richardson
2017-03-28 17:23 ` Alphonse Pace
2017-03-28 17:31 ` Wang Chun
2017-03-28 17:33 ` Jeremy
2017-03-28 17:50 ` Douglas Roark [this message]
2017-03-28 17:33 ` Juan Garavaglia
2017-03-28 17:53 ` Alphonse Pace
2017-03-28 22:36 ` Juan Garavaglia
2017-03-29 2:59 ` Luv Khemani
2017-03-29 6:24 ` Emin Gün Sirer
2017-03-29 15:34 ` Johnson Lau
2017-04-01 16:15 ` Leandro Coutinho
2017-03-29 9:16 ` Jared Lee Richardson
2017-03-29 16:00 ` Aymeric Vitte
2017-03-28 17:34 ` Johnson Lau
2017-03-28 17:46 ` Luke Dashjr
2017-03-28 20:50 ` Tom Zander
2017-03-29 4:21 ` Johnson Lau
2017-03-28 20:48 ` Tom Zander
2017-03-29 6:32 ` Bram Cohen
2017-03-29 9:37 ` Jorge Timón
2017-03-29 19:07 ` Jared Lee Richardson
2017-04-02 19:02 ` Staf Verhaegen
2017-03-29 7:49 ` Martin Lízner
2017-03-29 15:57 ` David Vorick
2017-03-29 16:08 ` Aymeric Vitte
[not found] ` <CAFVRnyo1XGNbq_F8UfqqJWHCVH14iMCUMU-R5bOh+h3mtwSUJg@mail.gmail.com>
2017-03-29 16:18 ` David Vorick
2017-03-29 16:20 ` Andrew Johnson
2017-03-29 16:25 ` David Vorick
2017-03-29 16:41 ` Andrew Johnson
2017-03-29 17:14 ` Aymeric Vitte
2017-03-29 20:53 ` Jared Lee Richardson
2017-03-29 20:32 ` Jared Lee Richardson
2017-03-29 21:36 ` praxeology_guy
2017-03-29 22:33 ` Aymeric Vitte
2017-03-30 5:23 ` Ryan J Martin
2017-03-30 10:30 ` Tom Zander
2017-03-30 16:44 ` Jared Lee Richardson
2017-03-30 20:51 ` Jared Lee Richardson
2017-03-30 21:57 ` Tom Zander
[not found] ` <CAD1TkXvx=RKvjC8BUstwtQxUUQwG4eiU9XmF1wr=bU=xcVg5WQ@mail.gmail.com>
2017-03-30 10:13 ` Aymeric Vitte
2017-03-29 19:46 ` Jared Lee Richardson
2017-03-29 19:10 ` Jared Lee Richardson
2017-03-29 19:36 ` praxeology_guy
2017-04-02 19:12 ` Staf Verhaegen
2017-03-28 19:56 Paul Iverson
2017-03-28 20:16 ` Pieter Wuille
2017-03-28 20:43 ` Tom Zander
2017-03-28 20:53 ` Alphonse Pace
2017-03-28 21:06 ` Luke Dashjr
2017-03-29 19:33 Daniele Pinna
2017-03-29 20:28 ` Peter R
2017-03-29 22:17 ` Jared Lee Richardson
2017-03-29 20:28 ` David Vorick
2017-03-29 22:08 ` Jared Lee Richardson
2017-03-30 7:11 ` Luv Khemani
2017-03-30 17:16 ` Jared Lee Richardson
2017-03-31 4:21 ` Luv Khemani
2017-03-31 5:28 ` Jared Lee Richardson
2017-03-31 8:19 ` Luv Khemani
2017-03-31 15:59 ` Jared Lee Richardson
2017-03-31 16:14 ` David Vorick
2017-03-31 16:46 ` Jared Lee Richardson
2017-03-31 18:23 ` David Vorick
2017-03-31 18:58 ` Eric Voskuil
2017-04-01 6:15 ` Jared Lee Richardson
2017-03-29 19:50 Raystonn .
2017-03-30 10:34 ` Tom Zander
2017-03-30 11:19 ` David Vorick
2017-03-30 21:42 ` Jared Lee Richardson
2017-03-30 11:24 ` Aymeric Vitte
2017-03-31 21:23 Rodney Morris
2017-03-31 23:13 ` Eric Voskuil
[not found] ` <CABerxhGeofH4iEonjB1xKOkHcEVJrR+D4QhHSw5cWYsjmW4JpQ@mail.gmail.com>
2017-04-01 1:41 ` Rodney Morris
2017-04-01 6:18 ` Jared Lee Richardson
2017-04-01 7:41 ` Eric Voskuil
[not found] ` <CAAt2M1_sHsCD_AX-vm-oy-4tY+dKoDAJhfVUc4tnoNBFn-a+Dg@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <CAAt2M19Gt8PmcPUGUHKm2kpMskpN4soF6M-Rb46HazKMV2D9mg@mail.gmail.com>
2017-04-01 14:45 ` Natanael
[not found] ` <CAD1TkXusCe-O3CGQkXyRw_m3sXS9grGxMqkMk8dOvFNXeV5zGQ@mail.gmail.com>
2017-04-01 18:42 ` Jared Lee Richardson
[not found] ` <CAAt2M1_kuCBQWd9dis5UwJX8+XGVPjjiOA54aD74iS2L0cYcTQ@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <CAAt2M19Nr2KdyRkM_arJ=LBnqDQQyLQ2QQ-UBC8=gFnemCdPMg@mail.gmail.com>
2017-04-01 13:26 ` Natanael
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