Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP: Voluntary deposit bonds

2014-12-30 Thread Jorge Timón
On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 10:34 PM, Justus Ranvier justus.ranv...@monetas.net wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 12/29/2014 09:10 PM, Mike Hearn wrote: How does adding inputs to a coinbase differ from just having pay-to-fee transactions in the block? If a miner

Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP: Voluntary deposit bonds

2014-12-30 Thread Justus Ranvier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 12/30/2014 10:47 AM, Jorge Timón wrote: What services? I must be missing something obvious about the motivation. I understand the difference between paying to myself only when I mine the next block and offering fees to whoever mines this tx.

Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP: Voluntary deposit bonds

2014-12-30 Thread Sergio Lerner
On 30/12/2014 01:51 a.m., Gregory Maxwell wrote: On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 7:21 PM, Sergio Lerner sergioler...@certimix.com wrote: I propose to allow miners to voluntarily lock funds by letting miners add additional inputs to the coinbase transaction. Currently the coinbase transaction does

Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP: Voluntary deposit bonds

2014-12-30 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 4:25 PM, Sergio Lerner sergioler...@certimix.com wrote: Slight off-topic: That looks like an abuse of the VM. Even P2SH is an abuse of the VM. Gavin's OP_EVAL (hard-fork) should had been chosen. I'm taking about a simple change that goes along the lines of Satoshi's