Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proposed alternatives to the 20MB step function

[Marcel Jamin <marcel@jamin.net>]

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> Let the block size limit be a function of the number of current transactions
in the mempool.

There is no single mempool which transactions could be counted and there is
no consensus about the average number of unconfirmed transactions.

2015-06-01 13:30 GMT+02:00 Ricardo Filipe <ricardojdfilipe@gmail.com>:

> I've been following the discussion of the block size limit and IMO it
> is clear that any constant block size limit is, as many have said
> before, just kicking the can down the road.
> My problem with the dynamic lower limit solution based on past blocks
> is that it doesn't account for usage spikes. I would like to propose
> another dynamic lower limit scheme:
> Let the block size limit be a function of the number of current
> transactions in the mempool. This way, bitcoin usage regulates the
> block size limit.
>
> I'm sorry i don't have the knowledge of the code base or time to make
> simulations on this kind of approach, but nevertheless I would like to
> leave it here for discussion or foster other ideas.
>
> cheers
>
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