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([2601:600:a080:16bb:f947:5006:f7cc:113e]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id f72sm31970950pff.145.2018.01.28.20.49.09 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 28 Jan 2018 20:49:09 -0800 (PST) To: George Balch , Bitcoin Protocol Discussion , Lucas Clemente Vella References: From: Eric Voskuil Message-ID: <261a9388-64fe-a664-85f0-4b0e8ca9ec1e@voskuil.org> Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2018 20:49:10 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.5.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="A9ZK34lsqffhzPy9uCdJBiveDnpXueW72" X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on smtp1.linux-foundation.org X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 29 Jan 2018 20:32:50 +0000 Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Proposal: rewarding fees to next block miner X-BeenThere: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: Bitcoin Protocol Discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2018 20:04:01 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --A9ZK34lsqffhzPy9uCdJBiveDnpXueW72 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="UGKqaplFJrvsu3x3SNFrRvpGvCB0T1rOt"; protected-headers="v1" From: Eric Voskuil To: George Balch , Bitcoin Protocol Discussion , Lucas Clemente Vella Message-ID: <261a9388-64fe-a664-85f0-4b0e8ca9ec1e@voskuil.org> Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Proposal: rewarding fees to next block miner References: In-Reply-To: --UGKqaplFJrvsu3x3SNFrRvpGvCB0T1rOt Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Your statements contradict each other. This is not a question of whether it is a "huge" cost, but whether there is an problem of incentive compatibility, which there is not. Miners incur the opportunity cost of the space that they mine that does not include the most optimal fees, which is equal in value to those forgone fees. If miners exclude available higher-fee transactions, or mine empty space, or mine their own "recovery" transactions, they are merely purchasing block space at market rates, just like everyone else. The only difference is that they are getting nothing in return, while everyone else is presumably getting a useful monetary transfer. In other words, they are losing value to do this. Therefore the incentive is to not do so. But again, the option to do so is perfectly incentive compatib= le. I'm not sure who cooked up this myth about miners gaining advantage over those who buy block space by mining empty space, rejecting higher-fee transactions, and/or mining "recovery" transactions, but the idea is complete nonsense. e On 01/28/2018 05:44 PM, George Balch via bitcoin-dev wrote: > If miners leave transactions out of a block they do pay a cost by not > being rewarded those fees.=C2=A0 If they include their own spam transac= tions > to get back the fee they gain nothing.=C2=A0 Since blocks can have fees= > resulting in hundreds of thousands of dollars, it would seem unlikely > that miners incur a huge cost for not including transactions. >=20 > On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 8:54 AM, Lucas Clemente Vella via bitcoin-dev > > wrote: >=20 > If the miner wants to force fees up, why would he fill up a block > with placeholder high fee transactions, instead of simply cutting > off transactions paying less fee than he is willing to take? Is > there any evidence someone is doing such a thing for whatever reaso= n? >=20 > 2018-01-27 6:45 GMT-02:00 Nathan Parker via bitcoin-dev > >: >=20 > Miners can fill their blocks with transactions paying very high= > fees at no cost because they get the fees back to themselves. > They can do this for different purposes, like trying to increas= e > the recommended fee. Here I propose a backwards-compatible > solution to this problem. >=20 > The solution would be to reward the fees of the current block t= o > the miner of the next block (or X blocks after the current one)= =2E > That way, if a miner floods its own block with very high fee > transactions, those fees are no longer given back to itself, bu= t > to the miner of future blocks which could potentially be anyone= =2E > Flooding blocks with fake txs is now discouraged. However, > filling blocks with real transactions paying real fees is still= > encouraged because you could be the one to mine the block that > would claim this reward. >=20 > The way to implement this in a backwards-compatible fashion > would be to enforce miners to set an anyone-can-spend output in= > the coinbase transaction of the block (by adding this as a rule= > for verifying new blocks). The miner of 100 blocks after the > current one can add a secondary transaction spending this > block's anyone-can-spend coinbase transaction (due to the > coinbase needing 100 blocks to mature) and thus claiming the > funds. This way, the block reward of a block X is always > transferred to the miner of block X+100. >=20 > Implementing this would require a soft-fork. Since that > secondary transaction needs no signature whatsoever, the > overhead caused by that extra transaction is negligible. >=20 > Possible Downside: When the fork is activated, the miners won=E2= =80=99t > get any reward for mining blocks for a period of 100 blocks. > They could choose to power off the mining equipment for > maintenance or to save power over that period, so the hashrate > could drop temporarily. However, if the hashrate drops too much= , > blocks would take much longer to mine, and miners wouldn=E2=80=99= t want > that either since they want to go through those 100 reward-less= > blocks as soon as possible so they can start getting rewards > from mining again. >=20 >=20 >=20 > _______________________________________________ > bitcoin-dev mailing list > bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org > > https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev > >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 > --=20 > Lucas Clemente Vella > lvella@gmail.com >=20 > _______________________________________________ > bitcoin-dev mailing list > bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org > > https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev > >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 > _______________________________________________ > bitcoin-dev mailing list > bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org > https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev >=20 --UGKqaplFJrvsu3x3SNFrRvpGvCB0T1rOt-- --A9ZK34lsqffhzPy9uCdJBiveDnpXueW72 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJabqfGAAoJEDzYwH8LXOFOITsH/3vfwGsn0+9O7121tnbUSkk/ QbMKXSbvmzEqJBtHDx2w6ZbM3U3i78x0jNioRsRCBnAQkOxoZhlt1ZGwwjoaP9/8 bkaz6r1/04rC1StvvzE0dt+xLHfPHdeCDviN6CQ1/g3Xg9CgdIJ2t21KS/puDdG4 +JdaLwxOFeN1tTERNwgujbtzN/U+xNChbu1Y8eMdb2bYiFXVYuETqm5UT+r25IIx xJiKq928odeBBSLNCxBG9E00WBE8srzWsuwLBkjbXU4o/iMbMK8uIpcksB2UWzSH nnqHlGeX7rGTjysAD71VM5NWn2Upf7Hq0BpUFsVlxW3G7T3KkV1pdJcElmYha2k= =kQ3c -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --A9ZK34lsqffhzPy9uCdJBiveDnpXueW72--