Devrandom [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2017-11-06 📝 Original message:> > Note how you're ...

📅 Original date posted:2017-11-06
📝 Original message:>
> Note how you're basically proposing for the block interval to be decreased,
>> which has security implications due to increased orphan rates.
>>
>
> Note that the total transaction rate and block size don't materially
> change, so I don't
> see why the orphan rate will change. Normal blocks are constrained to have
> all of the txs of the aux blocks, so propagation time should stay the
> same. Am I missing
> something?
>

Ah, yes, I'm missing that the expected time to find each type of block is
halved, so the orphan rate doubles.
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