By using third parties separate from individual miners that do bidding on your 
behalf you get a mechanism that allows QoS guarantees and shifting the 
complexity and risk from the wallet with little computational resources to a 
service with abundance of them. Using timelocked contracts it’s possible to 
enforce the guarantees.

Negotiating directly with miners via smart contracts seems difficult at best.


> On Jul 23, 2015, at 6:03 PM, Jean-Paul Kogelman via bitcoin-dev 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Doesn't matter.
> 
> It's not going to be perfect given the block time variance among other 
> factors but it's far more workable than guessing whether or not your 
> transaction is going to end up in a block at all.
> 
> jp
> 
> 
>> On Jul 24, 2015, at 8:53 AM, Peter Todd <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>> On 23 July 2015 20:49:20 GMT-04:00, Jean-Paul Kogelman via bitcoin-dev 
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> And it's obvious how a size cap would interfere with such a QoS scheme.
>>> Miners wouldn't be able to deliver the below guarantees if they have to
>>> start excluding transactions.
>> 
>> As mining is a random, poisson process, obviously giving guarantees without 
>> a majority of hashing power isn't possible.
>> 
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