From: Luke Dashjr <luke@dashjr.org>
To: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org, Tom Zander <tomz@freedommail.ch>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP proposal: Increase block size limit to 2 megabytes
Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2016 20:46:39 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201602062046.40193.luke@dashjr.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1804222.7gVHPiWqto@kiwi>
On Saturday, February 06, 2016 5:25:21 PM Tom Zander via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> On Saturday, February 06, 2016 06:09:21 PM Jorge Timón via bitcoin-dev
wrote:
> > None of the reasons you list say anything about the fact that "being
> > lost" (kicked out of the network) is a problem for those node's users.
>
> That's because its not.
>
> If you have a node that is "old" your node will stop getting new blocks.
> The node will essentially just say "x-hours behind" with "x" getting larger
> every hour. Funds don't get confirmed. etc.
Until someone decides to attack you. Then you'll get 6, 10, maybe more blocks
confirming a large 10000 BTC payment. If you're just a normal end user (or
perhaps an automated system), you'll figure that payment is good and
irreversibly hand over the title to the house.
Luke
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-06 20:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-05 20:51 [bitcoin-dev] BIP proposal: Increase block size limit to 2 megabytes Gavin Andresen
2016-02-05 22:36 ` Yifu Guo
2016-02-07 17:09 ` Gavin Andresen
2016-02-05 23:04 ` Btc Drak
2016-02-06 0:12 ` Luke Dashjr
2016-02-06 3:14 ` Jorge Timón
2016-02-06 15:37 ` Gavin Andresen
2016-02-06 17:01 ` Adam Back
2016-02-06 17:45 ` Gavin Andresen
2016-02-06 21:11 ` Peter Todd
2016-02-06 21:24 ` Peter Todd
2016-02-09 5:11 ` Samson Mow
2016-02-06 21:28 ` David Thomson
2016-02-07 18:49 ` Chris Priest
2016-02-06 17:09 ` Jorge Timón
2016-02-06 17:25 ` Tom Zander
2016-02-06 20:22 ` Chris Priest
2016-02-06 20:46 ` Luke Dashjr [this message]
2016-02-07 14:16 ` Gavin Andresen
2016-02-07 15:06 ` Alex Morcos
2016-02-07 16:54 ` Peter Todd
2016-02-07 15:19 ` Anthony Towns
2016-02-07 17:10 ` Jonathan Toomim
2016-02-07 17:24 ` jl2012
2016-02-07 17:56 ` Jonathan Toomim
2016-02-07 21:01 ` Luke Dashjr
2016-02-07 21:33 ` Steven Pine
2016-02-07 22:04 ` Corey Haddad
2016-02-07 22:25 ` Steven Pine
2016-02-06 20:36 ` Luke Dashjr
2016-02-06 22:22 ` Peter Todd
2016-02-07 5:21 ` Jannes Faber
2016-02-07 18:55 ` Jonathan Toomim
2016-02-07 19:03 ` Patrick Strateman
2016-02-07 19:19 ` Trevin Hofmann
2016-02-07 20:29 ` Tier Nolan
2016-02-09 13:59 ` Yifu Guo
2016-02-09 16:54 ` Gavin Andresen
2016-02-10 6:14 ` David Vorick
2016-02-10 6:36 ` Patrick Shirkey
2016-02-10 12:58 ` Tier Nolan
2016-02-07 11:37 ` Anthony Towns
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