Oh, and answering your question about the 1M:  It is a safety rail.  It can perform no worse on the low end than the current system.  Eliminates unlikely scenarios that squeeze users.


On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 8:17 PM, Luke Dashjr <luke@dashjr.org> wrote:
On Wednesday, September 02, 2015 11:58:54 PM Jeff Garzik via bitcoin-dev
wrote:
> The repo: https://github.com/jgarzik/bip100

What is the purpose of the newly added 1 MB floor? It seems clear from the
current information available that 1 MB is presently too high for the limit,
and it is entirely one-sided to only allow increases when decreases are much
more likely to be needed in the short term.

Must the new size limit votes use 11 bytes of coinbase? Why not just use a
numeric value pushed after height? Since this is a hardfork, I suggest
increasing the coinbase length to allow for 100 bytes *in addition* to the
pushed height and size-vote.

I suggest combining 2 & 4 into a single rule lifting the 1 MB limit to 32 MB
(or whatever value is deemed appropriate) to make it clear that the limit
remains a part of the consensus protocol and p2p protocol limits are not to
have an effect on consensus rules.

Furthermore, I suggest modifying the voting to require 50% to set the limit
floor. This has the effect of merely coordinating what miners can already
effectively do today by rejecting blocks larger than some collusion-
determined limit.

Thoughts?

Luke