Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] User vote in blocksize through fees

From: Eric Lombrozo <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2015 13:04:23 -0700

Miners currently only collect an almost negligible portion of their revenue
from fees. While I certainly welcome any proposals that move us in the
direction of defining a smooth metaconsensus process, I think with the
curent economics, miners (and especially those with significant hashing
power) have more of an incentive to block txs/spam their votes than to
adapt to tx sender preferences...unless people increase their tx fees
significantly. But without wallets that can make decent suggestions in this
regard, this feature will be almost inaccessible to most regular users. And
the economics still aren't entirely clear.

- Eric Lombrozo
On Jun 12, 2015 12:30 PM, "Jannes Faber" <[email-masked]> wrote:

I'm imagining in Peter's proposal it's not the transaction votes that are
counted but only the votes in the blocks? So miners get to vote but they
risk losing money by having to exclude counter voting transactions. But
garbage transactions are no problem at all.

Note that users that want to cast a vote "pay" for that by increased
confirmation time (on average, hopefully slightly depending on the trend).

On Fri, Jun 12, 2015, 20:27 Matt Whitlock <[email-masked]> wrote:

> On Friday, 12 June 2015, at 11:20 am, Mark Friedenbach wrote:
> > Peter it's not clear to me that your described protocol is free of miner
> > influence over the vote, by artificially generating transactions which
> they
> > claim in their own blocks
>
> Miners could fill their blocks with garbage transactions that agree with
> their vote, but this wouldn't bring them any real income, as they'd be
> paying their own money as fees to themselves. To get real income, miners
> would have to vote in accordance with real users.
>
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