Re: [Bitcoin-development] DS Deprecation Window

[Matt Corallo <bitcoin-list@bluematt.me>]

It is a very bad idea to delay relaying/accepting blocks based on
information which is only local to your node (ie would create the
ability for people to split the network by sending out lots of
double-spends to different parts of the network at the same time). Thus,
miners are incentivized to go connect to everyone on the network and
look for double-spends, not including them in their blocks to avoid
being delayed (which is OK, except having to connect to everyone is bad).
There is a related concept of "discouraging" blocks which generally only
refers to mining on a previous block, but you have to be careful doing
that so you dont break consensus.

On 10/27/14 19:58, Tom Harding wrote:
> Greetings Bitcoin Dev,
> 
> This is a proposal to improve the ability of bitcoin users to rely on 
> unconfirmed transactions.  It can be adopted incrementally, with no hard 
> or soft fork required.
> 
> https://github.com/dgenr8/out-there/blob/master/ds-dep-win.md
> 
> Your thoughtful feedback would be very much appreciated.
> 
> It is not yet implemented anywhere.
> 
> Cheers,
> Tom Harding
> CA, USA
> 
> 
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