When would miners vote no to receive more funds? Also, why would they spend the funds buying X once they get them? On Oct 3, 2016 00:58, "Sergio Demian Lerner via bitcoin-dev" < bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > One side benefit of OP_COUNT_ACKS is that it enables a completely > different use case: > > It allow users to pay for any service miners can provide as group for the > common good (e.g. fee payment smoothing over many blocks). For instance, > users could pay miners to jointly buy better Internet service to improve > bandwidth or reduce latency between them. > > By sending bitcoins to a script containing OP_COUNT_ACKS requiring 51% of > miners approval and adding a special text tag to such outputs such as > "FOR-MINERS-TO-BUY-X", users can send bitcoins to miners and ask the > majority of them to vote on the proposal, if accepted create a transaction > to redeem those funds. This could help to address the so-called tragedy of > the commons problem that Bitcoin may face in in long-term, by users > crowdfunding mining of the following n blocks. > > > _______________________________________________ > bitcoin-dev mailing list > bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org > https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev > >