rich1.0npub1s4lj77xuzcu7wy04afcr487f0r3za0f8n2775xrpkld2sv639mjqsd44kwhttps://nostr.ae/npub1s4lj77xuzcu7wy04afcr487f0r3za0f8n2775xrpkld2sv639mjqsd44kwnjumphttps://nostr.ae📅 Original date posted:2015-05-10 📝 Original message:Let me make sure I understand this proposal: On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 11:36 PM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote: > (*) I believe my currently favored formulation of general dynamic control > idea is that each miner expresses in their coinbase a preferred size > between some minimum (e.g. 500k) and the miner's effective-maximum; > the actual block size can be up to the effective maximum even if the > preference is lower (you're not forced to make a lower block because you > stated you wished the limit were lower). There is a computed maximum > which is the 33-rd percentile of the last 2016 coinbase preferences > minus computed_max/52 (rounding up to 1) bytes-- or 500k if thats > larger. The effective maximum is X bytes more, where X on the range > [0, computed_maximum] e.g. the miner can double the size of their > block at most. If X > 0, then the miners must also reach a target > F(x/computed_maximum) times the bits-difficulty; with F(x) = x^2+1 --- > so the maximum penalty is 2, with a quadratic shape; for a given mempool > there will be some value that maximizes expected income. (obviously all > implemented with precise fixed point arithmetic). The percentile is > intended to give the preferences of the 33% least preferring miners a > veto on increases (unless a majority chooses to soft-fork them out). The > minus-comp_max/52 provides an incentive to slowly shrink the maximum > if its too large-- x/52 would halve the size in one year if miners > were doing the lowest difficulty mining. The parameters 500k/33rd, > -computed_max/52 bytes, and f(x) I have less strong opinions about; > and would love to hear reasoned arguments for particular parameters. > I'm going to try to figure out how much transaction fee a transaction would have to pay to bribe a miner to include it. Greg, please let me know if I've misinterpreted the proposed algorithm. And everybody, please let me know if I'm making a bone-headed mistake in how I'm computing anything: Lets say miners are expressing a desire for 600,000 byte blocks in their coinbases. computed_max = 600,000 - 600,000/52 = 588,462 bytes. --> this is about 23 average-size (500-byte) transactions less than 600,000. effective_max = 1,176,923 Lets say I want to maintain status quo at 600,000 bytes; how much penalty do I have? ((600,000-588,462)/588,462)^2 + 1 = 1.00038 How much will that cost me? The network is hashing at 310PetaHash/sec right now. Takes 600 seconds to find a block, so 186,000PH per block 186,000 * 0.00038 = 70 extra PH If it takes 186,000 PH to find a block, and a block is worth 25.13 BTC (reward plus fees), that 70 PH costs: (25.13 BTC/block / 186,000 PH/block) * 70 PH = 0.00945 BTC or at $240 / BTC: $2.27 ... so average transaction fee will have to be about ten cents ($2.27 spread across 23 average-sized transactions) for miners to decide to stay at 600K blocks. If they fill up 588,462 bytes and don't have some ten-cent-fee transactions left, they should express a desire to create a 588,462-byte-block and mine with no penalty. Is that too much? Not enough? Average transaction fees today are about 3 cents per transaction. I created a spreadsheet playing with the parameters: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zYZfb44Uns8ai0KnoQ-LixDwdhqO5iTI3ZRcihQXlgk/edit?usp=sharing "We" could tweak the constants or function to get a transaction fee we think is reasonable... but we really shouldn't be deciding whether transaction fees are too high, too low, or just right, and after thinking about this for a while I think any algorithm that ties difficulty to block size is just a complicated way of dictating minimum fees. As for some other dynamic algorithm: OK with me. How do we get consensus on what the best algorithm is? I'm ok with any "don't grow too quickly, give some reasonable-percentage-minority of miners the ability to block further increases." Also relevant here: "The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design." - Friedrich August von Hayek -- -- Gavin Andresen -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/attachments/20150510/481dae92/attachment.html>