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From: Mike Brooks <m@ib.tc>
To: ZmnSCPxj <ZmnSCPxj@protonmail.com>
Cc: Bitcoin Protocol Discussion
	<bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>,
	Mike Brooks <f@in.st.capital>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Floating-Point Nakamoto Consensus
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2020 23:37:47 -0700	[thread overview]
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ZmnSCPxj,

No, it would be better to use parachains for Mars.

-Mike Brooks

On Tue, Sep 29, 2020, 11:31 PM ZmnSCPxj <ZmnSCPxj@protonmail.com> wrote:

>
> >  At this point very little is stopping us from speeding up block
> creation times. PoS networks are proving that conformations can be a minute
> or less - why not allow for a block formation time that is 6 or 12 times
> faster than the current target and have 1/6th (or 1/12th) of the subsidy to
> keep an identical inflation target.
>
> What?
>
> That is surprising information to me.
>
> My understanding is that speeding up block creation times is highly risky
> due to increasing the tendency to "race" in mining.
>
> The average time to propagate to all miners should be negligible to the
> average inter-block time.
> Efforts like compact blocks and FIBRE already work at the very edges of
> our capability to keep the propagation time negligible.
>
> Indeed, looking forward, part of my plans for Earth-based civilization
> involves sending out hapless humans into space and forcing them to survive
> there, thus the inter-block time may need to be *increased* in
> consideration of interplanetary communications times, otherwise Bitcoin
> would dangerously centralize around Earth, potentially leading to the
> Universal Century and awesome giant robot battles.
>
> (Hmmm, on the one hand, centralizing around Earth is dangerous, on the
> other hand, giant robots, hmmm)
>
> "PoS" networks mean nothing, as most of them are not global in the scale
> that Bitcoin is, and all of them have a very different block discovery
> model from proof-of-work.
> In particular, I believe there is no "racing" involved in most PoS schemes
> in practice.
>
> >
> > … The really interesting part is the doors that this patch opens.
> Bitcoin is the best network, we have the most miners and we as developers
> have the opportunity to build an even better system - all with incremental
> soft-forks - which is so exciting.
>
> Changing inter-block times is not possible as a softfork, unless you are
> planning to (ab)use the timewarp bug, which I believe was proposed by
> maaku7 before.
> My understanding is that the preferred approach would be to close the
> timewarp bug, in which case increasing the block rate would not be doable
> as a softfork anymore.
>
> Regards,
> ZmnSCPxj
>

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-30  6:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-24 19:40 [bitcoin-dev] Floating-Point Nakamoto Consensus Mike Brooks
2020-09-25 15:18 ` bitcoin ml
2020-09-25 16:04   ` Mike Brooks
2020-09-25 16:33   ` Jeremy
2020-09-25 17:35     ` Mike Brooks
2020-09-26 10:11       ` David A. Harding
2020-09-26 11:09         ` Mike Brooks
2020-09-29  1:51 ` Franck Royer
2020-09-29 16:00   ` Mike Brooks
2020-09-30  6:31     ` ZmnSCPxj
2020-09-30  6:37       ` Mike Brooks [this message]
2020-09-30 23:44         ` ZmnSCPxj
2020-09-30 23:53           ` Mike Brooks
2020-10-01  1:36             ` ZmnSCPxj
     [not found]               ` <CALFqKjT_ZTnqzhvRRpFV4wzVf2pi=_G-qJvSkDmkZkhYwS-3qg@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]                 ` <LPR_1lQZZGN-sT86purDUy8X_jF0XH35_xxdaqzRXHXPSZDtGVowS-FgIq1RN2mtT1Ds0bBErYvM-1TF7usCSAjojCCfkk5WOnZAvBLFzII=@protonmail.com>
     [not found]                   ` <CALFqKjR+uK2Rr4dUsL+D=ZUba2sroqnkhC1xcGHdjjupvDc7+Q@mail.gmail.com>
2020-10-01  6:47                     ` ZmnSCPxj
2020-10-04 15:58                       ` Mike Brooks
2020-10-01 16:42             ` Larry Ruane
2020-10-01 19:26               ` Mike Brooks
2020-09-29  3:10 ` LORD HIS EXCELLENCY JAMES HRMH
2020-10-10  1:26   ` Mike Brooks
2020-10-15 16:02     ` yanmaani
2020-10-08 18:43 ` Bob McElrath
2020-10-10  0:59   ` Mike Brooks

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