From: Raph Frank <raphfrk@gmail•com>
To: bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Incorporating block validation rule modifications into the block chain
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 14:58:09 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAN1xFdrGiWmn_EaBNMXXZAV38oeqP14YiMzMZQrkA+WL9QEMfA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAS2fgTwjXCGFS-N8a8Ro80ahxXT01dCfqWYOqmwCkdRramaMg@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 3:49 PM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@gmail•com> wrote:
> You misunderstand what BIP_0034 is doing— it's not gauging consensus,
> it's making sure that the change is safe to enforce. This is a subtle
> but important difference.
Sounds reasonable.
The change in BIP-34 doesn't cause old client to reject the main chain.
The increase to the maximum block size would be rejected by old
clients, so is different.
Adding new opcodes (as long as they act like a NOP on success) also
doesn't cause a disagreement about what is the longest chain, in the
end. Miners might end up mining chains which are guaranteed to be
orphaned at worst.
> Bitcoin is not a democracy— it quite intentionally uses the consensus
> mechanism _only_ the one thing that nodes can not autonomously and
> interdependently validate (the ordering of transactions).
So, how is max block size to be decided then?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-13 14:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-12 13:49 Raph Frank
2013-02-12 15:49 ` Gregory Maxwell
2013-02-13 14:58 ` Raph Frank [this message]
2013-02-13 15:42 ` Gregory Maxwell
2013-02-13 21:02 ` Gavin Andresen
2013-02-13 21:05 ` Gregory Maxwell
2013-02-13 23:10 ` Stephen Pair
2013-02-14 0:28 ` Gregory Maxwell
2013-02-14 2:44 ` Stephen Pair
2013-02-14 3:38 ` Gregory Maxwell
2013-02-14 5:36 ` Stephen Pair
2013-02-14 6:07 ` Peter Todd
2013-02-14 12:59 ` Stephen Pair
2013-02-18 16:22 ` Peter Todd
2013-02-14 1:02 ` Gregory Maxwell
2013-02-14 6:39 ` Peter Todd
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