Re: [bitcoin-dev] Is Bitcoin mempool synchronized?

2020-06-30 Thread ZmnSCPxj via bitcoin-dev
Good morning Hilda, > Hi there, > > I have been assuming Bitcoin system to be well synchronized, including > mempools. But after being challenged, I started to think that I actually > cannot verify this without knocking the door of every miner in every single > second (just a time slice reasona

[bitcoin-dev] Is Bitcoin mempool synchronized?

2020-06-30 Thread Hilda via bitcoin-dev
Hi there, I have been assuming Bitcoin system to be well synchronized, including mempools. But after being challenged, I started to think that I actually cannot verify this without knocking the door of every miner in every single second (just a time slice reasonable to me; stop torturing me by

Re: [bitcoin-dev] MAD-HTLC

2020-06-30 Thread Tejaswi Nadahalli via bitcoin-dev
Hello ZmnSCPxj (as there would be no better way to start an email to you :-), I posted a reply to Dave in the other sub-thread of this main thread. We have a paper about something similar to what you have said - where we look at "weak" and "strong" miners, and how even if there are a few weak mine

Re: [bitcoin-dev] MAD-HTLC

2020-06-30 Thread Stanga via bitcoin-dev
Hi ZmnSCPxj, That's a good point. Basically there are two extremes, if everyone is non-myoptic (rational), they should wait even for a small fee (our mad-htlc result), and if everyone else is myopic (rational), a non-myopic miner should only wait for a fairly large fee, depending on miner sizes an