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From: Bram Cohen <bram@chia•net>
To: Peter Todd <pete@petertodd•org>
Cc: Bitcoin Protocol Discussion <bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Security problems with relying on transaction fees for security
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2022 19:47:43 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHUJnBA+gb0AnGDRB9iA99R6=L0Y5DffB7aE2x+9dU9vyOoXmw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Ysyb4T/36oXeAH+z@petertodd.org>

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On Mon, Jul 11, 2022 at 2:53 PM Peter Todd <pete@petertodd•org> wrote:

>
> The only type of fee-smoothing scheme that is feasible is to smooth an
> entirely
> separate category of fees that are made mandatory. For example, you could
> achieve the economic impact of inflation by having a fixed value*time
> based fee
> that goes to timelocked anyone-can-spend outputs in the coinbase to push
> the
> fee forward to other miners.
>

I'm not sure what the implications would be of charging coins for moving
based on their value times how long since they last moved would be (I
*think* that's what you're suggesting). It isn't obviously bad, but feels
weird to me.

That said, a scheme which would work would be to have a fixed minimum fee
of satoshis/vbyte which is required to be repaid out by the miner into a
pool and they get back a fixed fraction of what was in that pool. The pool
could simply be a rolling coin which keeps the balance. That's still a bit
ugly but doesn't lessen block size significantly, is fairly coherent, and
is a soft fork. It's the best emergency measure I'm aware of.

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  reply	other threads:[~2022-07-12  2:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-07-11 18:12 Bram Cohen
2022-07-11 18:38 ` micaroni
2022-07-11 18:43 ` Erik Aronesty
2022-07-11 19:45 ` vjudeu
2022-07-11 20:35 ` Russell O'Connor
2022-07-11 20:52   ` Erik Aronesty
2022-07-11 21:36   ` Peter Todd
2022-07-11 21:56     ` Peter Todd
2022-07-12  0:21       ` Russell O'Connor
2022-07-12  0:37         ` Peter Todd
2022-07-14  0:54         ` Anthony Towns
2022-07-11 21:18 ` Pox
2022-07-11 21:53 ` Peter Todd
2022-07-12  2:47   ` Bram Cohen [this message]
2022-07-11 22:19 ` James MacWhyte
2022-07-11 22:26   ` Peter Todd
2022-07-12  0:01     ` James MacWhyte
2022-07-12  0:31       ` Peter Todd
2022-07-13  0:38     ` Tom Harding
2022-07-13 12:18       ` Erik Aronesty
2022-07-11 23:29 ` Anthony Towns
2022-07-12  3:56 Peter
2022-07-12 11:57 ` Erik Aronesty
2022-07-12 15:08   ` Peter
2022-07-12 17:46   ` Ryan Grant
     [not found] <mailman.82083.1657699581.8511.bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
2022-07-13  9:43 ` John Tromp
2022-07-13 11:56   ` John Tromp
2022-07-13 12:11   ` Gino Pinuto
2022-07-13 13:29     ` Manuel Costa
2022-07-14  9:33       ` vjudeu
2022-07-14  9:57         ` Erik Aronesty
2022-07-14 11:42           ` Gino Pinuto
2022-07-14 16:01             ` Erik Aronesty
2022-07-14 16:27             ` Manuel Costa
2022-07-15  6:03               ` vjudeu

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