On Monday 3. August 2015 11.22.14 Gavin Andresen via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> (my only big disagreement with those predictions is the 'Number of nodes'
> -- I don't think replace-by-fee would affect that number, and I think even
> with no change we will see the number of full nodes on the network drop
CORRECTION: That's Paul Sztorc. Not Peter. Apologies for my abysmal
proofreading.
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MC
On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 8:08 PM -0700, "Eric Lombrozo via bitcoin-dev"
wrote:
Rather than speculating on fake markets, why don’t we use theory, empirical
data, and engineering to fix the damn
Why not speculate on a real market? Peter Sztorc proposed a sidechain that
could be implemented now using Blockstream's method:
http://www.truthcoin.info/blog/win-win-blocksize/
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MC
On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 8:08 PM -0700, "Eric Lombrozo via bitcoin-dev"
wrote:
Rather than specul
Rather than speculating on fake markets, why don’t we use theory, empirical
data, and engineering to fix the damn problems?
> On Aug 4, 2015, at 11:28 AM, Owen via bitcoin-dev
> wrote:
>
> Given there is no money at stake in these prediction games, it is no surprise
> that the results are imp
Given there is no money at stake in these prediction games, it is no surprise
that the results are implausible.
On August 4, 2015 10:22:19 AM EDT, Anthony Towns via bitcoin-dev
wrote:
>On 4 August 2015 at 01:22, Gavin Andresen via bitcoin-dev <
>bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
>
On 4 August 2015 at 01:22, Gavin Andresen via bitcoin-dev <
bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> And the preliminary results of using a prediction market to try to wrestle
> with the tough tradeoffs looks roughly correct to me, too:
>https://blocksizedebate.com/
>
The scicast pred
On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 6:13 PM, GJB wrote:
> Do you mean something like a Foundation?
>
No, I think one of the fundamental problems with the Foundation is it tries
to represent everybody's interests. The interests of exchanges are not
necessarily the same as end-users or miners, for example.
Bu
I haven't seen this excellent recent blog post by Eli Dourado referenced
here:
https://readplaintext.com/how-should-bitcoin-be-governed-680192fcd92b
I agree with his conclusions: we need better communication/organization
mechanisms among 'stakeholders' and between the various factions
(developer
