On August 2, 2017 2:54:32 PM EDT, Lennart Sorensen via talk <[email protected]> wrote: >On Wed, Aug 02, 2017 at 12:54:05PM -0400, Scott Frederick via talk >wrote: >> On 02/08/2017 09:17 AM, Tim Tisdall via talk wrote: >> > It's "up to" 8MB. The first block was about 2MB and the rest have >> > been much much smaller: >https://cash.coin.dance/blocks#blockDetails >> >> Not only that the time between blocks is very long (hours), but every >6 >> blocks the mining difficulty is adjusted. The target is to have >Bitcoin >> cash blocks mined approximately every 10 minutes as with Bitcoin. >> Initially then, the blocks will be even smaller. > >Hmm, seems while block 478559 was 2MB, then some smaller ones, 478571 >was 4.6MB, so even larger. > >No idea what that means though.
Larger blocks mean lower fee percentages for miners. A miner has to be in consensus with other miners on the profitability of crunching the numbers on a block of any given size. https://medium.com/@johnblocke/a-brief-and-incomplete-history-of-censorship-in-r-bitcoin-c85a290fe43 > >-- >Len Sorensen >--- >Talk Mailing List >[email protected] >https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk -- Russell Sent by K-9 Mail --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
