[Bitcoin-development] Increasing regularity of block times?

2014-10-30 Thread Rusty Russell
Hi all, I've been toying with an algorithm to place a ceiling on confirmation latency by allowing weaker blocks after a certain time. Hope this isn't noise, but thought someone must have considered this before, or know of flaws in the scheme? Gory details:

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Increasing regularity of block times?

2014-10-30 Thread Jeff Garzik
That's what we do for testnet today: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Testnet If no block is found for 20 minutes, one minimum-diff block may be mined. On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 7:18 PM, Rusty Russell ru...@rustcorp.com.au wrote: Hi all, I've been toying with an algorithm to place a ceiling

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Increasing regularity of block times?

2014-10-30 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 11:18 PM, Rusty Russell ru...@rustcorp.com.au wrote: Hi all, I've been toying with an algorithm to place a ceiling on confirmation latency by allowing weaker blocks after a certain time. Hope this isn't noise, but thought someone must have considered this

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Increasing regularity of block times?

2014-10-30 Thread Rusty Russell
Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.com writes: On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 11:18 PM, Rusty Russell ru...@rustcorp.com.au wrote: Hi all, I've been toying with an algorithm to place a ceiling on confirmation latency by allowing weaker blocks after a certain time. Hope this isn't noise, but