I'm no BCH fan, but I agree with Scott that changes to the DAA may be of
more than purely theoretical interest for BTC. Anyway just for those
interested, below is an algo I've been playing with that adjusts difficulty
every block, based only on the previous block's time and difficulty. I
tested i
The current DA is only sufficient if the coin has the highest
hashpower. It's also just really slow. If miners somehow stick with
SegWit2x despite the higher rewards in defecting back to bitcoin, then
bitcoin will have long block delays. High transaction fees will
probably help them defect back to
You launched the political football by coming here with a verbose
'recommendation'. Without a code submission in form of pull request to
the core repo on github this was never a technical discussion.
On Thu, 2017-11-02 at 19:53 -0400, Scott Roberts via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> Whatever their failings
Whatever their failings from their previous code or their adversarial
nature, they got this code right and I'm only presenting it as a real and
excellent solution for the impending threat to bitcoin. As a big core fan,
I really wanted to delete the word Cash from my post because I was afraid
someon
On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 11:53 PM, Scott Roberts wrote:
> Whatever their failings from their previous code or their adversarial
> nature, they got this code right and I'm only presenting it as a real and
> excellent solution for the impending threat to bitcoin. As a big core fan, I
> really wanted t
Is there an issue with the current difficulty adjustment algorithm? It's
worked very well as far as I can tell. Introducing a new one seems pretty
risky, what would the benefit be?
On Nov 2, 2017 4:34 PM, "Scott Roberts via bitcoin-dev" <
bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> Bitcoin ca
On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 11:31 PM, Scott Roberts via bitcoin-dev
wrote:
> Bitcoin cash will hard fork on Nov 13 to implement a new difficulty
> algorithm. Bitcoin itself might need to hard fork to employ a similar
> algorithm. It's about as good as they come because it followed the
This is the bit
Bitcoin cash will hard fork on Nov 13 to implement a new difficulty
algorithm. Bitcoin itself might need to hard fork to employ a similar
algorithm. It's about as good as they come because it followed the
"simplest is best" route. Their averaging window is probably
significantly too long (N=144).
