[bitcoin-dev] A design for Probabilistic Partial Pruning

2021-02-26 Thread Keagan McClelland via bitcoin-dev
Hi all, I've been thinking for quite some time about the problem of pruned nodes and ongoing storage costs for full nodes. One of the things that strikes me as odd is that we only really have two settings. A. Prune everything except the most recent blocks, down to the cache size B. Keep

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Exploring alternative activation mechanisms: decreasing threshold

2021-02-26 Thread Ryan Grant via bitcoin-dev
Huh. I like the mechanism. I like the honesty that once a feature with high demand and safety is ready, activation pressure will keep increasing. The gradual march of time in this Decreasing Threshold proposal is predictable and incremental in ways that help avoid brinkmanship. Avoiding the