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From: jl2012 <jl2012@xbt.hk>
To: joe2015@openmailbox.org
Cc: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Increasing the blocksize as a (generalized) softfork.
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2015 23:23:32 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e170f3a10164019824edaafe5a04f067@xbt.hk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1bf64a5b514d57ca37744ae5f5238149@openmailbox.org>

I proposed something very similar 2 years ago:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=283746.0

This is an interesting academic idea. But the way you implement it will 
immediately kill all existing full and SPV nodes (not really dead, 
rather like zombie as they can't send and receive any tx).

joe2015--- via bitcoin-dev 於 2015-12-20 05:56 寫到:
> This is a draft.
> 
> --joe
> 
> Introduction
> ============
> 
> It is generally assumed that increasing the blocksize limit requires a
> hardfork.  Instead we show that a increasing the limit can be achieved 
> using a
> "generalized" softfork.  Like standard softforks, generalized softforks 
> need a
> mere miner majority (>50% hashpower) rather than global consensus.
> 



  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-12-21  4:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-20 10:56 [bitcoin-dev] Increasing the blocksize as a (generalized) softfork joe2015
2015-12-20 15:22 ` joe2015
2015-12-20 15:50 ` Tier Nolan
2015-12-20 18:17 ` Bryan Bishop
2015-12-21  3:04   ` joe2015
2015-12-21  4:23 ` jl2012 [this message]
2015-12-21  4:41   ` joe2015
2015-12-30 19:00     ` Bob McElrath
2015-12-30 23:49       ` Jonathan Toomim
2015-12-30 23:56         ` Jonathan Toomim
2015-12-31  0:04         ` Bob McElrath
2015-12-31  4:39           ` joe2015
2015-12-31 10:39             ` David Chan
2015-12-31 11:32               ` joe2015
2016-01-04 21:53 ` Luke Dashjr
2015-12-20 17:21 joe2015
2015-12-21  3:39 ` Jeff Garzik
2015-12-21  3:58   ` joe2015

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