<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><author_name>npub1m230cem2yh3mtdzkg32qhj73uytgkyg5ylxsu083n3tpjnajxx4qqa2np2</author_name><author_url>https://nostr.ae/npub1m230cem2yh3mtdzkg32qhj73uytgkyg5ylxsu083n3tpjnajxx4qqa2np2</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://nostr.ae</provider_url><html>📅 Original date posted:2015-06-12&#xA;📝 Original message:On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 02:26:20PM -0400, Matt Whitlock wrote:&#xA;&gt; On Friday, 12 June 2015, at 11:20 am, Mark Friedenbach wrote:&#xA;&gt; &gt; Peter it&#39;s not clear to me that your described protocol is free of miner&#xA;&gt; &gt; influence over the vote, by artificially generating transactions which they&#xA;&gt; &gt; claim in their own blocks&#xA;&gt; &#xA;&gt; Miners could fill their blocks with garbage transactions that agree with their vote, but this wouldn&#39;t bring them any real income, as they&#39;d be paying their own money as fees to themselves. To get real income, miners would have to vote in accordance with real users.&#xA;&#xA;Exactly. I very explicitly am proposing that we consider giving users a&#xA;mechanism to pay for votes to give them a way to directly influence the&#xA;outcome.&#xA;&#xA;-- &#xA;&#39;peter&#39;[:-1]@petertodd.org&#xA;0000000000000000127ab1d576dc851f374424f1269c4700ccaba2c42d97e778&#xA;-------------- next part --------------&#xA;A non-text attachment was scrubbed...&#xA;Name: signature.asc&#xA;Type: application/pgp-signature&#xA;Size: 650 bytes&#xA;Desc: Digital signature&#xA;URL: &lt;http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/attachments/20150612/4c8599eb/attachment.sig&gt;</html></oembed>