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I’m a little surprised we haven’t seen more simulations done to support “big block” and “small block” positions in the Bitcoin scaling debate. Or have there bee
by tlrobinson 9y ago
I’m a little surprised we haven’t seen more simulations done to support “big block” and “small block” positions in the Bitcoin scaling debate. Or have there been some?
- ringaroundthetx 9y agoHow many simulations would you like, we already know large blocks propogate fine and at some point they will introduce orphans to a less optimized part of the network
- tlrobinson 9y ago> a less optimized part of the network To me that reads "smaller miners", which means further centralization of mining.
- ringaroundthetx 9y agoyes, and so does orphans
- hybridsole 9y agoBut it doesn't mean they propagate "fine" if it pushes smaller participants off the network. That is exactly what cryptos like Bitcoin are trying to avoid.
- ringaroundthetx 9y agoI didn't take a stance at all. I said exactly what would happen and that the tests exist.
- jameskegel 9y agoCryptonote currencies like Monero have elastic block sizes for this reason
- 0xWilliam 9y agoGRC
- syngrog66 9y agoI proposed something along these lines, a few years ago, and did R&D on it. But I did not see funding so I stopped. If anyone has funding for me I'll take it up again. Had some pretty neat and useful feature ideas.