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

2014-10-30 Thread Rusty Russell
Gregory Maxwell writes: > On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 11:18 PM, Rusty Russell 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 consid

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 wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been toying with an algorithm to place a ceiling on > confirmation

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 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 > before, or know of f