Re: [bitcoin-dev] Solving the Scalability Problem on Bitcoin

2017-08-27 Thread Btc Ideas via bitcoin-dev
I also like only keeping the last "n" blocks. Every "n" minus all the previous balances are kept, but the transactions are deleted. There's good enough record keeping, and there's excessive. Part of scaling is being able to get the blockchain and sync quickly. Jason Original Message -

[bitcoin-dev] Encouraging good miners

2017-03-27 Thread Btc Ideas via bitcoin-dev
Add a preference for mined blocks to be the one with more transactions. This comes into play when 2 blocks of the same height are found. The first good block mined would be orphaned if it had less transactions than another. Optionally, have this rule apply to the current block and the previous o

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Encouraging good miners

2017-03-28 Thread Btc Ideas via bitcoin-dev
er of transactions is not a good measure of utility. --- From: bitcoin-dev-boun...@lists.linuxfoundation.org on behalf of Btc Ideas via bitcoin-dev Sent: 27 March 2017 17:12:19 To: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org Subject: [bitcoi