<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><author_name>npub1uu2fve28mkg68uequseraz8gee7qg64733lr9r2g4c0xs5pmqnuslr4rpf</author_name><author_url>https://nostr.ae/npub1uu2fve28mkg68uequseraz8gee7qg64733lr9r2g4c0xs5pmqnuslr4rpf</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://nostr.ae</provider_url><html>📅 Original date posted:2015-06-27&#xA;📝 Original message:-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----&#xA;Hash: SHA1&#xA;&#xA;Very interesting point and comparison. So the fee market is unknown,&#xA;similar to a market maker&#39;s orderbook - except in the case of Bitcoin&#xA;it is not being deliberately hidden from users, its just not knowable&#xA;how miners are positioning at any given moment.&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;On 06/28/2015 12:54 AM, Peter Todd wrote:&#xA;&gt; On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 07:46:55PM +0200, Benjamin wrote:&#xA;&gt;&gt; There is no ensured Quality of service, is there? If you &#34;bid&#34;&#xA;&gt;&gt; higher, then you don&#39;t know what you are going to get. Also&#xA;&gt;&gt; because you have no way of knowing what *others* are bidding.&#xA;&gt;&gt; Only if you have auctions (increasing increments) you can&#xA;&gt;&gt; establish a feedback loop to settle demand and supply. And the&#xA;&gt;&gt; supply side doesn&#39;t adapt. Adapting supply would help resolve&#xA;&gt;&gt; parts of the capacity problem.&#xA;&gt; &#xA;&gt; There&#39;s lots of markets where there is no assured quality of&#xA;&gt; service, and where the bids others are making aren&#39;t known. Most&#xA;&gt; financial markets work that way - there&#39;s only ever probabalistic&#xA;&gt; guarantees that for a given amount of money you&#39;ll be able to buy a&#xA;&gt; certain amount of gold at any given time for instance. Similarly&#xA;&gt; for nearly all commodities the infrastructure required to mine&#xA;&gt; those commodities has very little room for short, medium, or even&#xA;&gt; long-term production increases, so whatever the production supply&#xA;&gt; is at a given time is pretty much fixed.&#xA;&gt; &#xA;&gt; &#xA;&gt; &#xA;&gt; _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing&#xA;&gt; list bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org &#xA;&gt; https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev&#xA;&gt; &#xA;-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----&#xA;Version: GnuPG v1&#xA;&#xA;iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJVjuRiAAoJEGwAhlQc8H1mjnwIAIiUSPf6agfMXsFgupoihsTV&#xA;Pr1mJWHdLjrF5QadmdyooivYGPkY+zmfJ+N3fkr8l++PDGh03u0RgALf/gwJSSAQ&#xA;qSeMmjSZb8ZEkyLlZAGVHT8Ph+lRda65CVxYspKu/54TolqEezOHVaon9uWYVjtB&#xA;cSd8fWoqJMq05Pz25QPagxFUpXmtFX1KvxUWqeGkRsuqMgeWbCurQKpOhRXu48nH&#xA;Si73iOIyDUT9i1WsPvlpOi0pSxDlGnkMQKaEyIN5JJfKo1imRAtKVRLZh43rXpSW&#xA;jeZf8LMRwd49K4vnvHXZ0UbKWhpelh6XJari22citZ7yb5w5iENAcoP/cSGhLaY=&#xA;=nfF5&#xA;-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----</html></oembed>