Re: [bitcoin-dev] Encouraging good miners

[Antoine Le Calvez <antoine@alc.io>]

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I don't think encouraging mining more transactions is a good idea since 
it would promote inefficient transaction patterns. It's more efficient 
to send transactions with a high number of outputs/inputs instead of 
creating long transaction chains as some services do.

You might consider incentivizing miners to mine blocks that reduce the 
UTXO set size the most, or some other metric that promotes efficient 
uses of the blockchain.

On 27/03/17 17:12, Btc Ideas via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> Add a preference for mined blocks to be the one with more 
> transactions. This comes into play when 2 blocks of the same height 
> are found. The first good block mined would be orphaned if it had less 
> transactions than another. Optionally, have this rule apply to the 
> current block and the previous one.
>
> This increases incentive for full blocks because a miner thinking the 
> faster propagation of a smaller block will win him the reward, but 
> that would no longer be a good assumption.
>
> I read some miners could attack a chain by mining small or empty 
> blocks. This makes that a little more difficult, but they can still 
> attack the chain many ways.
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