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From: Simon Liu <simon@bitcartel.com>
To: Matt Corallo <lf-lists@mattcorallo.com>,
	Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] On Hardforks in the Context of SegWit
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2016 14:36:47 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56B9187F.3040104@bitcartel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56B8EBF8.4050602@mattcorallo.com>

> 1) The segregated witness discount is changed from 75% to 50%. The block
> size limit (ie transactions + witness/2) is set to 1.5MB. This gives a
> maximum block size of 3MB and a "network-upgraded" block size of roughly
> 2.1MB. This still significantly discounts script data which is kept out
> of the UTXO set, while keeping the maximum-sized block limited.

What is the rationale for offering a discount?

Is there an economic basis for setting the original discount at 75%
instead of some other number?

If it's okay to arbitrarily reduce the discount by 1/3, what are the
actual boundary limits:  50% - 75% ?  40% - 80% ?

--Simon


  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-02-08 22:36 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 [this message]
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
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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