<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><author_name>npub1fvd9jpjgn33ry4tt663e3fpsw5zysxzuacumergtweqhsa6ac9gqred8pr</author_name><author_url>https://nostr.ae/npub1fvd9jpjgn33ry4tt663e3fpsw5zysxzuacumergtweqhsa6ac9gqred8pr</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://nostr.ae</provider_url><html>📅 Original date posted:2015-08-28&#xA;📝 Original message:With this proposal, how much would it cost a miner to include an &#39;extra&#39; 500-byte transaction if the average block size is 900K and it costs the miner 20BTC in electricity/capital/etc to mine a block?&#xA;&#xA;If my understanding of the proposal is correct, it is:&#xA;&#xA;500/900000 * 20 = 0.11111 BTC&#xA;&#xA;... Or $2.50 at today&#39;s exchange rate.&#xA;&#xA;That seems excessive.&#xA;&#xA;--&#xA;Gavin Andresen&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&gt; On Aug 28, 2015, at 5:15 PM, Matt Whitlock via bitcoin-dev &lt;bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org&gt; wrote:&#xA;&gt; &#xA;&gt; This is the best proposal I&#39;ve seen yet. Allow me to summarize:&#xA;&gt; &#xA;&gt; • It addresses the problem, in Jeff Garzik&#39;s BIP 100, of miners selling their block-size votes.&#xA;&gt; • It addresses the problem, in Gavin Andresen&#39;s BIP 101, of blindly trying to predict future market needs versus future technological capacities.&#xA;&gt; • It avoids a large step discontinuity in the block-size limit by starting with a 1-MB limit.&#xA;&gt; • It throttles changes to ±10% every 2016 blocks.&#xA;&gt; • It imposes a tangible cost (higher difficulty) on miners who vote to raise the block-size limit.&#xA;&gt; • It avoids incentivizing miners to vote to lower the block-size limit.&#xA;&gt; &#xA;&gt; However, this proposal currently fails to answer a very important question:&#xA;&gt; &#xA;&gt; • What is the mechanism for activation of the new consensus rule? It is when a certain percentage of the blocks mined in a 2016-block retargeting period contain valid block-size votes?&#xA;&gt; &#xA;&gt; &#xA;&gt; https://github.com/btcdrak/bips/blob/bip-cbbsra/bip-cbbrsa.mediawiki&#xA;&gt; &#xA;&gt; &#xA;&gt;&gt; On Friday, 28 August 2015, at 9:28 pm, Btc Drak via bitcoin-dev wrote:&#xA;&gt;&gt; Pull request: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/187&#xA;&gt; _______________________________________________&#xA;&gt; bitcoin-dev mailing list&#xA;&gt; bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org&#xA;&gt; https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev</html></oembed>