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From: Matt Whitlock <bip@mattwhitlock.name>
To: Mark Friedenbach <mark@friedenbach.org>
Cc: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] User vote in blocksize through fees
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2015 14:26:20 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1466351.XXvDcu7nzO@crushinator> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOG=w-up7-wp2NnK52jeCLvcSWvbC-iT-YRDoA=10QhU=K14-g@mail.gmail.com>

On Friday, 12 June 2015, at 11:20 am, Mark Friedenbach wrote:
> Peter it's not clear to me that your described protocol is free of miner
> influence over the vote, by artificially generating transactions which they
> claim in their own blocks

Miners could fill their blocks with garbage transactions that agree with their vote, but this wouldn't bring them any real income, as they'd be paying their own money as fees to themselves. To get real income, miners would have to vote in accordance with real users.



  reply	other threads:[~2015-06-12 18:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-12 18:11 [Bitcoin-development] User vote in blocksize through fees Peter Todd
2015-06-12 18:20 ` Mark Friedenbach
2015-06-12 18:26   ` Matt Whitlock [this message]
2015-06-12 18:36     ` Peter Todd
2015-06-12 18:56     ` Jannes Faber
     [not found]       ` <CABr1YTfowMqgDZoWhDXiM0Bd3dwhVo6++FOvLntGc2HkApEbGw@mail.gmail.com>
2015-06-12 20:04         ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-06-12 23:01           ` Vincent Truong
2015-06-12 23:11             ` Luke Dashjr
2015-06-12 23:23           ` Aaron Gustafson
2015-06-12 18:22 ` Matt Whitlock
2015-06-12 18:34   ` Peter Todd
2015-06-12 18:36     ` Matt Whitlock
2015-06-12 18:39       ` Benjamin
2015-06-12 18:47         ` Peter Todd
2015-06-12 18:44       ` Peter Todd
2015-06-12 18:52         ` Matt Whitlock
2015-06-12 18:54         ` Matt Whitlock
2015-06-12 18:56           ` Aaron Gustafson
2015-06-13 22:20 ` Danny Thorpe
2015-06-13 22:24   ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-06-14  4:55   ` Chun Wang
2015-06-14  4:59     ` Jeff Garzik
2015-06-14  5:08     ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-06-14  5:13       ` Jeff Garzik
2015-06-14  5:20         ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-06-14  5:36           ` Jeff Garzik
2015-06-14 10:06             ` Mats Henricson
2015-06-14 10:34               ` Benjamin
2015-06-14 15:07                 ` Jeff Garzik
2015-06-14 21:59                   ` odinn
2015-06-14 20:10                 ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-06-14 14:42               ` Jeff Garzik
2015-06-14 22:26                 ` Mike Hearn
2015-06-15  3:59             ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-06-14  4:16 ` Stephen
2015-06-14  4:50   ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-06-14  4:56   ` Jeff Garzik
2015-06-14  7:19 ` Ashley Holman
2015-06-13 23:57 Raystonn
2015-06-14  4:28 ` odinn
2015-06-14  5:46   ` Aaron Voisine
2015-06-14 21:38     ` odinn

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