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From: Tom Harding <tomh@thinlink.com>
To: Peter Todd <pete@petertodd.org>
Cc: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Dynamically Controlled Bitcoin Block Size Max Cap
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2015 16:16:39 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55D7B157.904@thinlink.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150821222153.GD7450@muck>

On 8/21/2015 3:21 PM, Peter Todd wrote:
> To use a car analogy, Pieter Wuille has shown that the brake cylinders
> have a fatigue problem, and if used in stop-and-go traffic regularly
> they'll fail during heavy braking, potentially killing someone. You've
> countered with a study of highway driving, showing that if the car is
> only used on the highway the brakes have no issues, claiming that the
> car design is perfectly safe. 

No.  If we must play the analogy game, it was found that the car crashes
when the brakes are bad (minority hash power partitioned) the radio is
on (partitioned miners had small individual hashrate).

I checked the scenario where only the radio is on, and found the car
does not crash.



  reply	other threads:[~2015-08-21 23:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-18 12:13 [bitcoin-dev] Dynamically Controlled Bitcoin Block Size Max Cap Upal Chakraborty
2015-08-18 17:26 ` Chris Wardell
2015-08-20  7:31   ` Jorge Timón
2015-08-20 10:23     ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-08-21  0:25       ` Tom Harding
2015-08-21  0:37         ` Peter Todd
2015-08-21 16:52           ` Tom Harding
2015-08-21 22:21             ` Peter Todd
2015-08-21 23:16               ` Tom Harding [this message]
2015-08-22  0:01                 ` Peter Todd
2015-08-22  3:21                   ` Jorge Timón
2015-08-22  6:26                     ` Peter Todd
2015-08-23 23:41                   ` Tom Harding
2015-08-24  2:27                     ` Jorge Timón
2015-08-21  0:45         ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-08-21  0:58           ` Peter Todd
2015-08-21  1:30             ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-08-21 20:28       ` Jorge Timón
2015-08-21 12:13     ` Sriram Karra
2015-08-21 20:09       ` Jorge Timón
2015-08-18 19:44 ` cedric perronnet
2015-08-18 20:58 ` Danny Thorpe
2015-08-18 21:17   ` Chris Wardell
2015-08-19 17:21   ` Upal Chakraborty
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-08-21 21:45 Upal Chakraborty
2015-08-20 15:02 Upal Chakraborty
2015-08-17 11:57 Rodney Morris
2015-08-17 12:38 ` Angel Leon
2015-08-17 12:43 ` Tier Nolan
2015-08-17  9:44 Upal Chakraborty
2015-08-17  9:54 ` Levin Keller
2015-08-17  9:59 ` Patrick Strateman
2015-08-17 10:51   ` Btc Drak

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