Luke-Jr [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2011-09-14 🗒️ Summary of this message: Gregory Maxwell ...
📅 Original date posted:2011-09-14
🗒️ Summary of this message: Gregory Maxwell disagrees with Luke's suggestion to fix the root cause of chain-forking, unless all other changes are made simultaneously. Changing time rules does not help and restricting them breaks miners without rollntime support.
📝 Original message:On Wednesday, September 14, 2011 4:09:00 PM Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> Though I generally agree with Luke that we should just fix the root
> cause even though it forks the chain.
I don't support this, unless all other chain-forking-needed changes are made
at the same time. I do point out that changing the time rules *does not help*.
> Not for his reasons (I don't give a crap about the burden on _one_ pool
> operator— the rest cope with bitcoind scaling fine without excessive
> dependance on ntime rolling),
The rest don't generate rewards immediately as the same block being mined.
They either eat the loss of invalid blocks, or wait for 100+ confirmations
before paying. Also, restricting the time rules basically breaks miners
without rollntime support (such as Phoenix).
🗒️ Summary of this message: Gregory Maxwell disagrees with Luke's suggestion to fix the root cause of chain-forking, unless all other changes are made simultaneously. Changing time rules does not help and restricting them breaks miners without rollntime support.
📝 Original message:On Wednesday, September 14, 2011 4:09:00 PM Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> Though I generally agree with Luke that we should just fix the root
> cause even though it forks the chain.
I don't support this, unless all other chain-forking-needed changes are made
at the same time. I do point out that changing the time rules *does not help*.
> Not for his reasons (I don't give a crap about the burden on _one_ pool
> operator— the rest cope with bitcoind scaling fine without excessive
> dependance on ntime rolling),
The rest don't generate rewards immediately as the same block being mined.
They either eat the loss of invalid blocks, or wait for 100+ confirmations
before paying. Also, restricting the time rules basically breaks miners
without rollntime support (such as Phoenix).