If a miner try to hurt the network mining just empty blocks at some time the
rest will start rejecting their blocks and will be orphans so will loss the
reward incentive and that miner will join the behavior of the rest of the
miners, if that miner has 51% of hashrate there the smallest problem
Alphonse,
Even when several of the experts involved in the document you refer has my
respect and admiration, I do not agree with some of their conclusions some of
their estimations are not accurate other changed like Bootstrap Time, Cost per
Confirmed Transaction they consider a network of 450,
Alphonse,
In my opinion if 1MB limit was ok in 2010, 8MB limit is ok on 2016 and 32MB
limit valid in next halving, from network, storage and CPU perspective or 1MB
was too high in 2010 what is possible or 1MB is to low today.
If is unsafe or impossible to raise the blocksize is a different topi
We notice some reorgs in Bitcoin testnet, while reorgs in testnet are common
and may be part of different tests and experiments, it seems the forks are not
created by a single user and multiple blocks were mined by different users in
each chain. My first impression was that the problem was rela
Today according to the stats at https://bitnodes.21.co/nodes/ the top 10
Bitcoin running node versions are:
1.
_Version Satoshi:0.13.1
_Nodes 2071
_38.97%
2.
_Version Satoshi:0.12.1
_Nodes 1022
_19.23%
3.
Satoshi:0.13.0
_Nodes 604
_11.36%
4.
Bitcoin Unlimited:0.12.1
_Nodes 373
_7.02%
5.
