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From: Darren Weber <dweber.consulting@gmail.com>
To: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org
Subject: [bitcoin-dev] BIP suggestion: PoW proportional to block transaction sum
Date: Wed, 30 May 2018 09:17:29 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJfMfCoK5=KVr6NB-dxddbjB+ufZxgaUBqwxN+_O3f9JWuut0w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

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Apologies for brevity, noob here and just throwing out an idea in case it's
useful (probably already covered somewhere, but I haven't got time to do
all the necessary background research).

From https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/13342

Suggestion:  To make it more difficult for a malicious attacker to reap
quick rewards by double-spending large amounts with a relatively brief
majority of the network hashing power, introduce a hash workload that is
proportional to the sum of transactions in a block (probably the sum of the
absolute values, and a "proportionality function" could be linear or
exponential).  The motivation is to make it more difficult for malicious
attacks to hash-power their way through a few large transactions.
Obviously, there are costs in greater transaction delays (and fees?) for
larger amounts (absolute value).

If there is original value in the idea, I can try to make time to follow-up
with a better BIP proposal.

-- 
Darren

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             reply	other threads:[~2018-05-30 16:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-30 16:17 Darren Weber [this message]
2018-06-05 10:50 ` [bitcoin-dev] BIP suggestion: PoW proportional to block transaction sum Thomas Guyot-Sionnest
2018-06-06 21:01   ` Darren Weber

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