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From: Anthony Towns <aj@erisian.com.au>
To: "Jakob Rönnbäck" <jakob.ronnback@me.com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Adjusted difficulty depending on relative blocksize
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2015 16:20:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJS_LCWRagQ40c28SGetxeHxnk8FqY3y_X0OxfqaiLbd25dSGg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <09C8843E-8379-404D-8357-05BDB1F749C1@me.com>

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On 14 August 2015 at 11:59, Jakob Rönnbäck <
bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

> What if one were to adjust the difficulty (for individual blocks)
> depending on the relative size to the average block size of the previous
> difficulty period? (I apologize if i’m not using the correct terms, I’m not
> a real programmer, and I’ve only recently started to subscribe to the
> mailing list)
>

​That would mean that as usage grew, blocksize could increase, but
confirmation times would also increase (though presumably less than
linearly). That seems like a loss?

If you also let the increase in confirmation time (due to miners finding
harder blocks rather than a reduction in hashpower) then get reflected back
as decreased difficulty, it'd probably be simpler to just dynamically
adjust the max blocksize wouldn't it?

Cheers,
aj​

-- 
Anthony Towns <aj@erisian.com.au>

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-08-14 14:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-14  9:59 [bitcoin-dev] Adjusted difficulty depending on relative blocksize Jakob Rönnbäck
2015-08-14 13:32 ` Angel Leon
2015-08-14 14:19   ` Jakob Rönnbäck
2015-08-14 16:37     ` [bitcoin-dev] libconsensus assertion fails if used in multiple threads Tamas Blummer
2015-08-14 21:10       ` Cory Fields
2015-08-18  5:03         ` Cory Fields
2015-08-18 10:31           ` Tamas Blummer
2015-08-18 17:25             ` Cory Fields
2015-08-18 17:50               ` Cory Fields
2015-08-18 21:40             ` Eric Voskuil
2015-08-14 14:20 ` Anthony Towns [this message]
     [not found]   ` <A6B32C22-4006-434E-9B89-D7C99B5743A8@me.com>
2015-08-14 14:48     ` [bitcoin-dev] Adjusted difficulty depending on relative blocksize Jakob Rönnbäck
2015-08-14 15:00       ` Anthony Towns
2015-08-14 15:03       ` Adam Back
2015-08-14 15:14         ` Jakob Rönnbäck
2015-09-09  3:27           ` Tom Harding
2015-09-09 18:59             ` Warren Togami Jr.
2015-09-09 19:53               ` Tom Harding
2015-08-14 22:12         ` Tom Harding

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