From: "Jorge Timón" <jtimon@jtimon•cc>
To: Tier Nolan <tier.nolan@gmail•com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Draft BIP : fixed-schedule block size increase
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 18:11:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABm2gDrF_dGM9KrThSoAr4FP1KtbYTnKx433X1PmKRUXfXRiTQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAE-z3OXEUE8b_u9Pf8DbPL4jWTqyR7CDJRqKFKoTGpGxnr1QoA@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 3:47 PM, Tier Nolan <tier.nolan@gmail•com> wrote:
> - Miner vote to decide soft limit (lowest size ignoring bottom 20% but 1MB
> minimum)
I don't think is all that interesting to make miners vote on lower
limit. Say the community wants to reduce the size to limit mining
centralization, it's not unthinkable that the hashrate majority (which
may have to face more competition or harvest less transactions after
the change) may oppose to that and then the community is forced to
deploy an anti-miner's hardfork (maybe even asic-reset hardfork?)
instead of a softfork.
Yes, uncontroversial sofforks are easier and less risky to deploy than
uncontroversial hardforks, but anti-miner hardforks are not.
Not only I don't think it's a good idea for miners to vote on the
block size (which is there to control them), I don't even buy the
assumption that "we can always just softfork a smallwer size later".
If you give something to miners they may not want to give it back later.
We could hardfork to 42 M supply and then "just softfork back to 21 M", right?
Or what's the same, we could "just softfork supply to 15 M". Such a
change would be clearly controversial among miners, so it wouldn't be
an uncontroversial softfork anymore. Some of these cases are discussed
in BIP99.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-17 16:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-22 18:18 Gavin Andresen
2015-06-22 18:33 ` Tier Nolan
2015-06-22 18:46 ` Gavin Andresen
2015-06-22 19:10 ` Martin Schwarz
2015-06-22 19:28 ` Tier Nolan
2015-06-22 19:54 ` Gavin Andresen
2015-06-22 20:12 ` Peter Todd
2015-06-22 19:23 ` Peter Todd
2015-06-23 7:35 ` Ross Nicoll
2015-08-17 15:58 ` Jorge Timón
2015-06-23 19:16 ` Peter Todd
2015-06-22 20:27 ` Kalle Rosenbaum
2015-06-22 20:46 ` Gavin Andresen
2015-06-22 20:51 ` Gavin Andresen
2015-06-22 21:52 ` Mark Friedenbach
2015-06-23 19:28 ` Peter Todd
2015-06-23 20:12 ` Gavin Andresen
2015-06-23 20:26 ` Pieter Wuille
2015-06-23 20:50 ` Peter Todd
2015-06-24 6:14 ` grarpamp
2015-06-23 20:46 ` Peter Todd
2015-06-23 21:24 ` Gavin Andresen
2015-06-26 19:08 ` Peter Todd
2015-06-26 22:01 ` Ivan Brightly
2015-06-26 19:25 ` Peter Todd
2015-06-26 22:16 ` Simon Liu
2015-06-27 2:14 ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-06-23 20:55 ` Roy Badami
2015-06-24 1:43 ` odinn
2015-06-24 3:05 ` William Madden
2015-06-24 3:49 ` Jeff Garzik
2015-06-24 13:06 ` Will
2015-06-24 13:44 ` Gavin Andresen
2015-06-25 0:32 ` Pindar Wong
2015-06-25 13:50 ` Gareth Williams
2015-06-25 14:07 ` Adam Back
2015-06-26 13:47 ` Tier Nolan
2015-06-26 15:13 ` Will
2015-06-26 17:39 ` Gavin Andresen
2015-06-26 19:07 ` Will
2015-07-01 22:49 ` odinn
2015-08-17 13:15 ` Tier Nolan
2015-08-17 13:18 ` Clément Elbaz
2015-08-19 3:45 ` odinn
2015-08-17 16:11 ` Jorge Timón [this message]
2015-06-26 21:07 ` Carsten Otto
2015-06-22 19:32 Jean-Paul Kogelman
2015-06-22 20:43 ` Tier Nolan
2015-06-22 20:54 ` Peter Todd
2015-06-22 21:04 ` Stephen Morse
2015-06-22 21:32 ` Ross Nicoll
2015-08-17 15:54 ` Jorge Timón
2015-06-22 21:21 ` Gavin Andresen
2015-06-22 21:39 ` Patrick Strateman
2015-06-22 21:48 ` Tier Nolan
2015-06-23 7:59 Ross Nicoll
2015-06-24 4:31 Raystonn
2015-06-24 17:05 ` Mark Friedenbach
2015-06-24 17:24 ` Roy Badami
2015-06-24 17:23 Raystonn
2015-06-24 17:24 ` Allen Piscitello
2015-06-24 17:28 ` Roy Badami
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