Tom Zander [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2017-09-01 📝 Original message:On Friday, 1 September ...
📅 Original date posted:2017-09-01
📝 Original message:On Friday, 1 September 2017 14:47:08 CEST Cserveny Tamas via bitcoin-dev
wrote:
> The fundamental problem is that if the miners add capacity it will only
> increase (protect) their share of block reward, but does not increase the
> speed of transactions.
Adding more space in blocks has no effect on the block-reward. It does
actually increase the throughput speed of transactions.
> This will only raise the fee in the long run with
> the block reward decreasing.
Also this is exactly the opposite of what actually happened.
> The current chain is effectively single threaded.
This is not true, since xthin/compactblocks have been introduced we
completely removed this bottle-neck.
The transactions will be validated continuously, in parallel and not just
when a block is found.
--
Tom Zander
Blog: https://zander.github.io
Vlog: https://vimeo.com/channels/tomscryptochannel
📝 Original message:On Friday, 1 September 2017 14:47:08 CEST Cserveny Tamas via bitcoin-dev
wrote:
> The fundamental problem is that if the miners add capacity it will only
> increase (protect) their share of block reward, but does not increase the
> speed of transactions.
Adding more space in blocks has no effect on the block-reward. It does
actually increase the throughput speed of transactions.
> This will only raise the fee in the long run with
> the block reward decreasing.
Also this is exactly the opposite of what actually happened.
> The current chain is effectively single threaded.
This is not true, since xthin/compactblocks have been introduced we
completely removed this bottle-neck.
The transactions will be validated continuously, in parallel and not just
when a block is found.
--
Tom Zander
Blog: https://zander.github.io
Vlog: https://vimeo.com/channels/tomscryptochannel