<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><author_name>npub1edz8qyleqfqddckyjs0erkqysv2n76fwatw32nehpm5k7gertf4shmqjxc</author_name><author_url>https://nostr.ae/npub1edz8qyleqfqddckyjs0erkqysv2n76fwatw32nehpm5k7gertf4shmqjxc</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://nostr.ae</provider_url><html>📅 Original date posted:2015-06-14&#xA;📝 Original message:To tell you the truth. It is only because most miners are not located&#xA;in the West. If Slush, Eligius and BTC Guild still on top 3, the core&#xA;developers, including brain-dead Mike Hearn, would be very happy to do&#xA;BIP100 just like they did BIP34 and BIP66. Shame on you!&#xA;&#xA;On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 6:20 AM, Danny Thorpe &lt;danny.thorpe at gmail.com&gt; wrote:&#xA;&gt; Please forgive my ignorance, but why should Bitcoin users have a say in&#xA;&gt; block size limits?  It&#39;s the miners and Bitcoin node operators that bear the&#xA;&gt; burden of managing large blocks, no?&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; Users voting on network parameters sounds like neighbors voting on how deep&#xA;&gt; my swimming pool should be.&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; Thanks,&#xA;&gt; -Danny&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 11:11 AM, Peter Todd &lt;pete at petertodd.org&gt; wrote:&#xA;&gt;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&gt; Jeff Garzik recently proposed that the upper blocksize limit be removed&#xA;&gt;&gt; entirely, with a &#34;soft&#34; limit being enforced via miner vote, recorded by&#xA;&gt;&gt; hashing power.&#xA;&gt;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&gt; This mechanism within the protocol for users to have any influence over&#xA;&gt;&gt; the miner vote. We can add that back by providing a way for transactions&#xA;&gt;&gt; themselves to set a flag determining whether or not they can be included&#xA;&gt;&gt; in a block casting a specific vote.&#xA;&gt;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&gt; We can simplify Garzik&#39;s vote to say that one of the nVersion bits&#xA;&gt;&gt; either votes for the blocksize to be increased, or decreased, by some&#xA;&gt;&gt; fixed ratio (e.g 2x or 1/2x) the next interval. Then we can use a&#xA;&gt;&gt; nVersion bit in transactions themselves, also voting for an increase or&#xA;&gt;&gt; decrease. Transactions may only be included in blocks with an&#xA;&gt;&gt; indentical vote, thus providing miners with a monetary incentive via&#xA;&gt;&gt; fees to vote according to user wishes.&#xA;&gt;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&gt; Of course, to cast a &#34;don&#39;t care&#34; vote we can either define an&#xA;&gt;&gt; additional bit, or sign the transaction with both versions. Equally we&#xA;&gt;&gt; can even have different versions with different fees, broadcast via a&#xA;&gt;&gt; mechanism such as replace-by-fee.&#xA;&gt;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&gt; See also John Dillon&#39;s proposal for proof-of-stake blocksize voting:&#xA;&gt;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&gt; https://www.mail-archive.com/bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net/msg02323.html&#xA;&gt;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&gt; --&#xA;&gt;&gt; &#39;peter&#39;[:-1]@petertodd.org&#xA;&gt;&gt; 0000000000000000127ab1d576dc851f374424f1269c4700ccaba2c42d97e778&#xA;&gt;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&gt; ------------------------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;&gt;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&gt; _______________________________________________&#xA;&gt;&gt; Bitcoin-development mailing list&#xA;&gt;&gt; Bitcoin-development at lists.sourceforge.net&#xA;&gt;&gt; https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development&#xA;&gt;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; ------------------------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; _______________________________________________&#xA;&gt; Bitcoin-development mailing list&#xA;&gt; Bitcoin-development at lists.sourceforge.net&#xA;&gt; https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development&#xA;&gt;</html></oembed>