On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 5:57 AM, Ashley Holman dsc...@gmail.com wrote:
* As far as I can tell, this shouldn't change any game theory or incentives
because nodes still receive blocks exactly as they do now, just sooner. The
difference is, invalid blocks that meet the PoW will be broadcast to
On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 8:57 PM, Ashley Holman dsc...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
On this list there has been some discussion around techniques to speed up
block propagation, with a particular focus on reducing the extra orphan risk
carried by larger blocks.
The current store-and-forward method
On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 8:29 AM, Bernd Jendrissek bitc...@bpj-code.co.za
wrote:
The difference is that with cut-through forwarding of blocks, a
sufficiently motivated attacker (being willing to blow 25BTC's worth
of electricity on the effort) can subjugate the entire Bitcoin network
to its
On 05/24/2014 07:41 PM, Ashley Holman wrote:
On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 8:29 AM, Bernd
Jendrissek bitc...@bpj-code.co.za
mailto:bitc...@bpj-code.co.za wrote:
The difference is that with cut-through forwarding of blocks, a
sufficiently motivated attacker (being willing to blow 25BTC's
On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 5:04 PM, Alan Reiner etothe...@gmail.com wrote:
I think the most important change is modifying the way Bitcoin Core
prioritizes blocks. Right now it uses the first full block verified.
Instead, it should consider the first valid header received as highest
priority, but
On 05/24/2014 08:14 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 5:04 PM, Alan Reiner etothe...@gmail.com wrote:
I think the most important change is modifying the way Bitcoin Core
prioritizes blocks. Right now it uses the first full block verified.
Instead, it should consider the first
I have done some work on incentives arising from block propagation times and it
turns out that Bitcoin is already quite good at establishing the primacy of
blocks by time despite what people think. Part of the reason for this is the
way that partitions on the network evolve as a block is
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