Re: [Bitcoin-development] Concerns Regarding Threats by a Developer to Remove Commit Access from Other Developers

2015-06-21 Thread Owen Gunden
On 06/19/2015 07:48 AM, Brooks Boyd wrote: > Has there been any talk about reducing the time between blocks? If > blocks were allowed to come twice as fast, they would be able to clear > pending transactions in the mempool the same as if the block size > doubled, but would allow mining to stay more

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Long-term mining incentives

2015-05-16 Thread Owen Gunden
On 05/13/2015 09:31 PM, Aaron Voisine wrote: > > by people and businesses deciding to not use on-chain settlement. > > I completely agree. Increasing fees will cause people voluntary > economize on blockspace by finding alternatives, i.e. not bitcoin. This strikes me as a leap. There are alternat

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proposed alternatives to the 20MB step function

2015-05-10 Thread Owen Gunden
On 05/08/2015 11:36 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > Another related point which has been tendered before but seems to have > been ignored is that changing how the size limit is computed can help > better align incentives and thus reduce risk. E.g. a major cost to the > network is the UTXO impact of t