Re: [bitcoin-dev] Variable Block Size Proposal

2015-08-29 Thread Jorge Timón via bitcoin-dev
On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 4:22 PM, Jameson Lopp via bitcoin-dev wrote: > I don't think you'll find much support for introducing a mandatory minimum > block size. It's quite wasteful to "pad" blocks with transactions that the > miner is just sending back to themself. If you want to solve the block >

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Variable Block Size Proposal

2015-08-29 Thread Justin M. Wray via bitcoin-dev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 That's fine too. Obviously the variable maximum would work just fine without a minimum. In fact, with the O(1) propagation proposal, a minimum number of transactions could be enforced, think - a percentage of the current mempool. That's actually

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Variable Block Size Proposal

2015-08-29 Thread Jameson Lopp via bitcoin-dev
I don't think you'll find much support for introducing a mandatory minimum block size. It's quite wasteful to "pad" blocks with transactions that the miner is just sending back to themself. If you want to solve the block propagation issue, I'd recommend instead working on O(1) block propagation. T

[bitcoin-dev] Variable Block Size Proposal

2015-08-28 Thread Justin M. Wray via bitcoin-dev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hey Bitcoiners! While I am an avid Bitcoin supporter, long-term user, and have done development work on tools and platforms surrounding Bitcoin, I have been very busy these past few weeks and haven't had a chance to fully (or closely) monitor the Bl