Ryan,
Maybe you could test out your ideas somewhere like bitcointalk.org and/or
provide some more technical substance before engaging with this forum.
Developers tend to prefer dealing with numbers known to be either 1 or 0, not a
variable set of possible values depending on non-technical factors ...
Gavin
> On 24/12/2013, at 15:42, "Ryan Carboni" <ryan.jc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Maybe it's because the arguments being presented are nonsensical and
> irrelevant to the current Bitcoin network topology, composed of a small
> number of mining pools, not solo miners? Furthermore I think people would
> realize that their mining pool has gone "off the reservation" so to speak.
>
>
>> On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 8:05 PM, Allen Piscitello
>> <allen.piscite...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Ryan,
>>
>> Why do you continue to try to correct people who clearly have put more
>> thought into this than you? Everyone understood you just fine, you just
>> seem to have trouble comprehending why your ideas are terrible.
>>
>>
>>> On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 7:51 PM, Ryan Carboni <ryan.jc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I think you misunderstood my statement. If time > 3 days, and after 4
>>> blocks have been mined, then difficulty would be reset.
>>>
>>> In theory, one would have to isolate roughly one percent of the Bitcoin
>>> network's hashing power to do so. Which would indicate an attack by a state
>>> actor as opposed to anything else. Arguably, the safest way to run Bitcoin
>>> is through a proprietary dial-up network.
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 7:22 PM, Mark Friedenbach <m...@monetize.io> wrote:
>>>
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>>>> Ryan, these sort of adjustments introduce security risks. If you were
>>>> isolated from the main chain by a low-hashpower attacker, how would
>>>> you know? They'd need just three days without you noticing that
>>>> network block generation has stalled - maybe they wait for a long
>>>> weekend - then after that the block rate is normal but completely
>>>> controlled by the attacker (and isolated from mainnet).
>>>>
>>>> There are fast acting alternative difficulty adjustment algorithms
>>>> being explored by some alts, such as the 9-block interval, 144-block
>>>> window, Parks-McClellan FIR filter used by Freicoin to recover from
>>>> just such a mining bubble. If it were to happen to bitcoin, there
>>>> would be sophisticated alternative to turn to, and enough time to make
>>>> the change.
>>>>
>>>> On 12/22/2013 07:10 PM, Ryan Carboni wrote:
>>>> > I think Bitcoin should have a sanity check: after three days if
>>>> > only four blocks have been mined, difficulty should be adjusted
>>>> > downwards.
>>>> >
>>>> > This might become important in the near future. I project a
>>>> > Bitcoin mining bubble.
>>>> >
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