Why does demurrage even still come up? The base rules of Bitcoin will not be changing in such a fundamental way.
With regards to trying to minimize the size of the UTXO set, this again feels like a solution in search of a problem. Even with SD abusing micropayments as messages, it's only a few hundred megabytes today. That fits in RAM, let alone disk. If one day people do get concerned about the working set size, miners can independently set their own policies for what they confirm, for instance maybe they just bump the priority of any transaction that has fewer outputs than inputs. An IsStandard() rule now that tries to ban micropayments will just risk hurting interesting applications for no real benefit. It's like trying to anticipate and fix problems we might face in 2020. There are lots of less invasive changes for improving scalability, like making transaction validation multi-threaded in every case, transmitting merkle blocks instead of full blocks, moving blocking disk IO off the main loop so nodes don't go unresponsive when somebody downloads the chain from them, and finishing the payment protocol work so there's less incentive to replicate the SD "transactions as messages" design. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 positioned as A LEADER in The Forrester Wave(TM): Endpoint Security, Q1 2013 and "remains a good choice" in the endpoint security space. For insight on selecting the right partner to tackle endpoint security challenges, access the full report. http://p.sf.net/sfu/symantec-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
