From: Devrandom <c1.bitcoin@niftybox•net>
To: Peter Todd <pete@petertodd•org>
Cc: Bitcoin Protocol Discussion <bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Introducing a POW through a soft-fork
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2017 23:38:20 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAB0O3SXHyQhqoKtDZacWOUjzKp+3GimGABGToWrvRQgcBRE6EA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAB0O3SVsXL_zVBs-OFEaFuKTXoyYAiB8TEZStOfou7mMkHLMnA@mail.gmail.com>
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> Note how you're basically proposing for the block interval to be decreased,
>> which has security implications due to increased orphan rates.
>>
>
> Note that the total transaction rate and block size don't materially
> change, so I don't
> see why the orphan rate will change. Normal blocks are constrained to have
> all of the txs of the aux blocks, so propagation time should stay the
> same. Am I missing
> something?
>
Ah, yes, I'm missing that the expected time to find each type of block is
halved, so the orphan rate doubles.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-06 23:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-01 5:48 Devrandom
2017-11-02 23:55 ` Tao Effect
2017-11-03 1:02 ` Devrandom
2017-11-06 19:50 ` Peter Todd
2017-11-06 20:30 ` Paul Sztorc
2017-11-06 20:55 ` Eric Voskuil
2017-11-07 4:38 ` Devrandom
2017-11-11 19:51 ` Eric Voskuil
2017-11-06 22:39 ` Devrandom
2017-11-06 23:38 ` Devrandom [this message]
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