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From: joe2015@openmailbox.org
To: Bryan Bishop <kanzure@gmail.com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Increasing the blocksize as a (generalized) softfork.
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2015 11:04:31 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8088b376ed29f3ea0af67b7567189e31@openmailbox.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABaSBazMYw6ou1=GDvi5XxNRgWxsQxTu9jU+PaqW9u9rAe=D-w@mail.gmail.com>

On 2015-12-21 02:17, Bryan Bishop wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 4:56 AM, joe2015--- via bitcoin-dev
> <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> 
>> An Arbitrary Block-size Increase Via a Generalized Softfork
> 
> This seems conceptually similar to "extension blocks":
> https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2015-May/008356.html
> [1]
> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=283746.0 [2]
> http://gnusha.org/bitcoin-wizards/2015-12-20.log [3]
> 
> "Extended blocks" are also mentioned over here too:
> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1296628.msg13307275#msg13307275
> [4]

The main difference is that my proposal does not introduce different 
"tiers" of blocks, and does not require uses to move coins to manually 
move coins between these tiers.

Instead, my proposal uses a single flat block format that is essentially 
the same as the current block format; only bigger.

The main point is that such a change does not require a hardfork with 
global consensus, as is commonly assumed, but rather can be deployed 
like a softfork using the method described in my original post.

--joe.


  reply	other threads:[~2015-12-21  3:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-20 10:56 [bitcoin-dev] Increasing the blocksize as a (generalized) softfork joe2015
2015-12-20 15:22 ` joe2015
2015-12-20 15:50 ` Tier Nolan
2015-12-20 18:17 ` Bryan Bishop
2015-12-21  3:04   ` joe2015 [this message]
2015-12-21  4:23 ` jl2012
2015-12-21  4:41   ` joe2015
2015-12-30 19:00     ` Bob McElrath
2015-12-30 23:49       ` Jonathan Toomim
2015-12-30 23:56         ` Jonathan Toomim
2015-12-31  0:04         ` Bob McElrath
2015-12-31  4:39           ` joe2015
2015-12-31 10:39             ` David Chan
2015-12-31 11:32               ` joe2015
2016-01-04 21:53 ` Luke Dashjr
2015-12-20 17:21 joe2015
2015-12-21  3:39 ` Jeff Garzik
2015-12-21  3:58   ` joe2015

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