And it's obvious how a size cap would interfere with such a QoS scheme. Miners wouldn't be able to deliver the below guarantees if they have to start excluding transactions.
> On Jul 24, 2015, at 8:45 AM, Jean-Paul Kogelman via bitcoin-dev > <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > > Quality of service as in: > >> X satoshi / kb = included in block currently worked on; > >> Y satoshi / kb = included in next block; > >> Z satoshi / kb = included in block after that, etc. > > Block count starts when transaction is first seen. Miners can set X, Y, Z. > > Market develops when miners start setting different values and adding more > transactions to blocks as opposed to other miners with higher settings. > > It basically comes down to the miners themselves if they want a healthy fee > market. If they stick to their guns, their influence on the fees will be > proportional to their hashing power. > > jp > >> On Jul 24, 2015, at 8:32 AM, Eric Lombrozo <elombr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >>> On Jul 23, 2015, at 5:22 PM, Jean-Paul Kogelman <jeanpaulkogel...@me.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> You are not going to get a fair fee market if your only form of enforcement >>> is the threat of exclusion. >>> >>> A more fair fee market will develop if miners start offering quality of >>> service, preferably at multiple tiers. At that point any interference from >>> a block size cap will only be detrimental. In fact it will only highlight >>> what the cap is actually for; to prevent monster blocks. >>> >>> Add better QoS tools for miners and extend the cap (when possible) and >>> there's your fee market. >>> >>> jp >> >> Not sure what you mean by QoS here. Either your transaction is included or >> it isn’t. It’s not like you can upgrade to a master suite with a view or >> anything. > _______________________________________________ > bitcoin-dev mailing list > bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org > https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing list bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
