Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] [BUG]: Bitcoin blockspace price discrimination put simple transactions at disadvantage

From: Keagan McClelland <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2023 15:39:38 -0700

> As a result, there are incentives structure distorted and critical
inefficiencies/vulnerabilities (e.g. misallocation of block space,
blockspace value destruction, disincentivized simple transaction,
centralization around complex transactions originators).

Can you please describe the mechanism here?

> Price of blockspace should be the same for any data (1 byte = 1 byte,
irrespectively of location inside or outside of witness), e.g. 205/205
and 767/767 bytes in the examples above.

"Should" ... to what end?

Keags

On Wed, Dec 27, 2023 at 10:26 AM Greg Tonoski via bitcoin-dev <
[email-masked]> wrote:

> Blockspace price for data of a simple transaction is higher than the
> one for data of other ("complex") transactions: 3 vs 1.49
> "weight"/byte in the examples below:
> - 3=616 "weight" / 205 bytes (txid:
> aabbcce67f2aa71932f789cac5468d39e3d2224d8bebb7ca2c3bf8c41d567cdd)
> - 1.49=1140 "weight" / 767 bytes (txid:
> 1c35521798dde4d1621e9aa5a3bacac03100fca40b6fb99be546ec50c1bcbd4a).
>
> As a result, there are incentives structure distorted and critical
> inefficiencies/vulnerabilities (e.g. misallocation of block space,
> blockspace value destruction, disincentivized simple transaction,
> centralization around complex transactions originators).
>
> Price of blockspace should be the same for any data (1 byte = 1 byte,
> irrespectively of location inside or outside of witness), e.g. 205/205
> and 767/767 bytes in the examples above.
>
> Perhaps, the solution (the same price, "weight" of each bit of a
> transaction) could be introduced as part of the next version of Segwit
> transactions.
>
> Let's fix it. What do you think?
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