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Re: Elastic block cap with rollover penalties
by
NewLiberty
on 04/06/2015, 16:32:01 UTC
Isn't it precisely what is implemented in Monero? (except you don't have a rollover pool, the penalty is simply deducted from the block reward for good).
No idea what happens in Monero, but if so, more power to them.

Apparently, neither does Gavin.
He said he didn't want to talk to you until there was working code that does it?
Such code has been working for years, but people forget where the experimentation is occurring, the alts.
A good place to start:
https://github.com/monero-project/bitmonero/blob/54fbf2afb3bc029823ed6c200e08bd21fe42ac10/tests/unit_tests/block_reward.cp
and
https://github.com/monero-project/bitmonero/blob/c41d14b2aa3fc883d45299add1cbb8ebbe6c9ed8/src/cryptonote_core/blockchain.cpp#L2230-L2244

Can you explain a bit about the mechanism wherein the miner pays into the rollover pool, and why that is different from the 'original proposal'?  It is not obvious why this dictinction makes a difference.  It seems to still incentivize out of chain payments to miners for transaction inclusion regardless of whether it is paid by the miner, or deducted from the miner's reward, both are dependent on the fees in the block (which aren't there in out of block payments schemes).