Yeah, it does make things harder, and it's easy enough to soft fork to
handle arbitrary opt-in protocol improvements, new much larger block sizes,
whatever you want. Even OK to migrate to a new system by not allowing
old->old or new->old transactions.
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This unnecessarily complicates transaction selection for miners by
introducing a second (and possibly third if I understand your proposal
correctly) dimension to try to optimize.
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bin_packing_problem
Segwit already solves this exact issue by replacing block size
On 3/15/2017 5:25 PM, b...@cock.lu wrote:
> compact fraud proofs in Bitcoin aren't possible
> In the white paper SPV clients have the same security as fully
> validating nodes
In addition to not existing, if compact fraud proofs did exist, trying
to ensure they are seen by SPV clients has the same