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From: Peter Todd <pete@petertodd.org>
To: jl2012 <jl2012@xbt.hk>
Cc: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Segregated witness softfork with moderate adoption has very small block size effect
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2015 09:43:10 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151219174309.GB30640@muck> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b19eb676c18ba451605cb02159541dd9@xbt.hk>

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On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 11:49:25AM -0500, jl2012 via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> I have done some calculation for the effect of a SW softfork on the
> actual total block size.

Note how the fact that segwit needs client-side adoption to enable an
actual blocksize increase can be a good thing: it's a clear sign that
the ecosystem as a whole has opted-into a blocksize increase.

Not as good as a direct proof-of-stake vote, and somewhat coercive as a
vote as you pay lower fees, but it's an interesting side-effect.

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-12-19 17:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-19 16:49 [bitcoin-dev] Segregated witness softfork with moderate adoption has very small block size effect jl2012
2015-12-19 17:43 ` Peter Todd [this message]
2015-12-19 18:37   ` Santino Napolitano
2015-12-19 18:48     ` Peter Todd
2015-12-20  3:37   ` Chris Priest
2015-12-19 17:55 ` Justus Ranvier
2015-12-20  1:19 ` Douglas Roark

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