<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><author_name>npub1jp0jnnq2jxcjy76nrt5dssvmpynt4f9psdelp3vxj0y0xtpxl7jqhkn8jw</author_name><author_url>https://nostr.ae/npub1jp0jnnq2jxcjy76nrt5dssvmpynt4f9psdelp3vxj0y0xtpxl7jqhkn8jw</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://nostr.ae</provider_url><html>📅 Original date posted:2015-08-28&#xA;📝 Original message:On Aug 28, 2015 7:38 PM, &#34;Mark Friedenbach&#34; &lt;mark at friedenbach.org&gt; wrote:&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; It is in their individual interests when the larger block that is allowed&#xA;for them grants them more fees.&#xA;&#xA;And pay a difficulty penalty and lose full blocks because of it? Even if&#xA;fees are somehow high enough to compensate for the lost reward, it still&#xA;requires miners to collectively decide to raise the block size for it to&#xA;make sense individually. An individual vote will not raise the limit, but&#xA;it will cost the miner money.&#xA;&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; On Aug 28, 2015 4:35 PM, &#34;Chris Pacia via bitcoin-dev&#34; &lt;&#xA;bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org&gt; wrote:&#xA;&gt;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&gt; When discussing this with Matt Whitlock earlier we basically concluded&#xA;the block size will never increase under this proposal do to a collective&#xA;action problem. If a miner votes for an increase and nobody else does, the&#xA;blocksize will not increase yet he will still have to pay the difficulty&#xA;penalty.&#xA;&gt;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&gt; It may be in everyone&#39;s collective interest to raise the block size but&#xA;not their individual interest.&#xA;&gt;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&gt; On Aug 28, 2015 6:24 PM, &#34;Gavin via bitcoin-dev&#34; &lt;&#xA;bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org&gt; wrote:&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt; With this proposal, how much would it cost a miner to include an&#xA;&#39;extra&#39; 500-byte transaction if the average block size is 900K and it costs&#xA;the miner 20BTC in electricity/capital/etc to mine a block?&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt; If my understanding of the proposal is correct, it is:&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt; 500/900000 * 20 = 0.11111 BTC&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt; ... Or $2.50 at today&#39;s exchange rate.&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt; That seems excessive.&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt; --&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt; Gavin Andresen&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt; &gt; On Aug 28, 2015, at 5:15 PM, Matt Whitlock via bitcoin-dev &lt;&#xA;bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org&gt; wrote:&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt; &gt;&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt; &gt; This is the best proposal I&#39;ve seen yet. Allow me to summarize:&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt; &gt;&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt; &gt; • It addresses the problem, in Jeff Garzik&#39;s BIP 100, of miners&#xA;selling their block-size votes.&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt; &gt; • It addresses the problem, in Gavin Andresen&#39;s BIP 101, of blindly&#xA;trying to predict future market needs versus future technological&#xA;capacities.&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt; &gt; • It avoids a large step discontinuity in the block-size limit by&#xA;starting with a 1-MB limit.&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt; &gt; • It throttles changes to ±10% every 2016 blocks.&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt; &gt; • It imposes a tangible cost (higher difficulty) on miners who vote&#xA;to raise the block-size limit.&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt; &gt; • It avoids incentivizing miners to vote to lower the block-size&#xA;limit.&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt; &gt;&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt; &gt; However, this proposal currently fails to answer a very important&#xA;question:&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt; &gt;&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt; &gt; • What is the mechanism for activation of the new consensus rule? It&#xA;is when a certain percentage of the blocks mined in a 2016-block&#xA;retargeting period contain valid block-size votes?&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt; &gt;&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt; &gt;&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt; &gt; https://github.com/btcdrak/bips/blob/bip-cbbsra/bip-cbbrsa.mediawiki&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt; &gt;&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt; &gt;&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt; &gt;&gt; On Friday, 28 August 2015, at 9:28 pm, Btc Drak via bitcoin-dev&#xA;wrote:&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt; &gt;&gt; Pull request: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/187&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt; &gt; _______________________________________________&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt; &gt; bitcoin-dev mailing list&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt; &gt; bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt; &gt; https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt; _______________________________________________&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt; bitcoin-dev mailing list&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt; bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt; https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev&#xA;&gt;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&gt; _______________________________________________&#xA;&gt;&gt; bitcoin-dev mailing list&#xA;&gt;&gt; bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org&#xA;&gt;&gt; https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev&#xA;&gt;&gt;&#xA;-------------- next part --------------&#xA;An HTML attachment was scrubbed...&#xA;URL: &lt;http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/attachments/20150828/f3f30c1b/attachment.html&gt;</html></oembed>