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From: Luke Dashjr <luke@dashjr.org>
To: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org,
	Matt Corallo <lf-lists@mattcorallo.com>
Cc: Anthony Towns <aj@erisian.com.au>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] On Hardforks in the Context of SegWit
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2016 22:10:43 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201602092210.45265.luke@dashjr.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56BA618C.4010301@mattcorallo.com>

On Tuesday, February 09, 2016 10:00:44 PM Matt Corallo via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> Indeed, we could push for more place by just always having one 0-byte,
> but I'm not sure the added complexity helps anything? ASICs can never be
> designed which use more extra-nonce-space than what they can reasonably
> assume will always be available, so we might as well just set the
> maximum number of bytes and let ASIC designers know exactly what they
> have available. Currently blocks start with at least 8 0-bytes. We could
> just say minimum difficulty is now 6 0-bytes (2**16x harder) and reserve
> those?

The extranonce rolling doesn't necessarily need to happen in the ASIC itself. 
With the current extranonce-in-gentx, an old RasPi 1 can only handle creating 
work for up to 5 Gh/s with a 500k gentx.

Furthermore, there is a direct correlation between ASIC speeds and difficulty, 
so increasing the extranonce space dynamically makes a lot of sense.

I don't see any reason *not* to increase the minimum difficulty at the same 
time, though.

Luke


  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-09 22:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-08 19:26 [bitcoin-dev] On Hardforks in the Context of SegWit Matt Corallo
2016-02-08 20:37 ` jl2012
2016-02-08 22:24   ` Tao Effect
     [not found]     ` <CAAcC9yuJY3Lsd7Z0rx8TFLNT1fJLhrpxzKJREQ7FmdNNjdXJow@mail.gmail.com>
2016-02-09  2:45       ` Tao Effect
2016-02-08 22:36 ` Simon Liu
2016-02-08 22:54   ` Peter Todd
2016-02-09  9:00 ` Anthony Towns
2016-02-09 21:54   ` Matt Corallo
2016-02-09 22:00     ` Matt Corallo
2016-02-09 22:10       ` Luke Dashjr [this message]
2016-02-09 22:39         ` Matt Corallo
2016-02-10  5:16       ` Anthony Towns
2016-02-09 12:32 Nicolas Dorier

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