Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP Proposal: UTWFOTIB - Use Transaction Weight For Ordering Transactions In Blocks

2017-12-07 Thread Erik Aronesty via bitcoin-dev
ck the revised proposal to the list. I have fleshed parts of > it out more, given more explanation and, tried this time not to recycle > terminology. > > > Regards, > > Damian Williamson > ------------------ > *From:* ZmnSCPxj <zmnsc...@protonmail.com> > *

Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP Proposal: UTWFOTIB - Use Transaction Weight For Ordering Transactions In Blocks

2017-12-07 Thread Damian Williamson via bitcoin-dev
on.org Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP Proposal: UTWFOTIB - Use Transaction Weight For Ordering Transactions In Blocks Good morning ZmnSCPxj, it must be where you are, I suppose that we are each missing each other's point some. I understand that nodes would not be expected to agree on the trans

Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP Proposal: UTWFOTIB - Use Transaction Weight For Ordering Transactions In Blocks

2017-12-07 Thread Damian Williamson via bitcoin-dev
iamson Cc: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP Proposal: UTWFOTIB - Use Transaction Weight For Ordering Transactions In Blocks Good morning Damian, >As I understand it, each node would be aware independently of x transactions >waiting for confirmation, the

Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP Proposal: UTWFOTIB - Use Transaction Weight For Ordering Transactions In Blocks

2017-12-07 Thread Damian Williamson via bitcoin-dev
ation.org> Sent: Wednesday, 6 December 2017 4:18:11 PM To: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP Proposal: UTWFOTIB - Use Transaction Weight For Ordering Transactions In Blocks As i understand it, the transactions to be included in a block are entirely up

Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP Proposal: UTWFOTIB - Use Transaction Weight For Ordering Transactions In Blocks

2017-12-07 Thread ZmnSCPxj via bitcoin-dev
Good morning Damian, >As I understand it, each node would be aware independently of x transactions >waiting for confirmation, the transaction pool. Each long-running node would have a view that is roughly the same as the view of every other long-running node. However, suppose a node, Sleeping

Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP Proposal: UTWFOTIB - Use Transaction Weight For Ordering Transactions In Blocks

2017-12-06 Thread Jim Renkel via bitcoin-dev
As i understand it, the transactions to be included in a block are entirely up to the miner of that block. What prevents a miner from implementing the proposal on their own? If this is adopted as some kind of "policy", what forces a miner to follow it? Jim Renkel On 12/2/2017 10:07 PM,

Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP Proposal: UTWFOTIB - Use Transaction Weight For Ordering Transactions In Blocks

2017-12-06 Thread Damian Williamson via bitcoin-dev
nsc...@protonmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, 6 December 2017 4:46:45 PM To: Damian Williamson Cc: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP Proposal: UTWFOTIB - Use Transaction Weight For Ordering Transactions In Blocks Good morning Damian, The primary problem in your pr

Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP Proposal: UTWFOTIB - Use Transaction Weight For Ordering Transactions In Blocks

2017-12-06 Thread ZmnSCPxj via bitcoin-dev
Good morning Damian, The primary problem in your proposal, as I understand it, is that the "transaction pool" is never committed to and is not part of consensus currently. It is unlikely that the transaction pool will ever be part of consensus, as putting the transaction pool into consensus