Re: Is the guy proposing BIP 106 from India ?

Quote from: btc_enigma on September 08, 2015, 06:34:04 PM

Quote from: skang on September 08, 2015, 04:34:04 PM

Its great that Indians are thinking about the blocksize issue but this BIP does not have much to contribute.

UpalC proposed this solution in this sub-forum and then ignored the criticisms to the idea.
Dynamic blocksize is being discussed since atleast 2 years now and he is the first to formalize it. That is appreciated but there is a reason why the devs did not do it 2 years ago - it doesn't solve the blocksize issue at all, it only just states how to increase/decrease the blocksize & that too in a pro-centralization manner.

I tried explaining him the issues through every medium I could, but I guess he perceived me as a jealous fellow, so I gave up & backed out. I am still writing this post because many Indians tend to jump over anything "Indian" without considering its merits & that presents a bad representation of my country.

Anyways, all the problems I stated were repeated by other people when he presented it on reddit and in the dev sub-forum. Again he had no answers and ignored them too.

I would request people to read his BIP and you'll understand a. why this is the most obvious thing anybody can think of (and many people did in fact) & b.Why it doesn't solve the blocksize issue.

If after understanding the issue and also his solution, feel free to jump on the patriotic appreciation band-wagon, but if you do so I'd really wanna know what you liked or what new did he present.

Its is a good proposal . I read the proposal and also https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3iblg7/bipdraft_dynamically_controlled_bitcoin_block/

Basically I find this almost like BIP 100 , which sounds better because it does not enforce directly halving/doubling and the rise could be more gradual.

Reddit thread and other responses are mostly positive . Whether the community accepts this or not is a different thing. There is criticsm for every BIP proposal. But we should appericate that it has passed through review mechanism(reviewed by gavin/others) and made it to bips github repository,

If you think you have a better idea, I invite you to submit a BIPS too. Note that some of them are slaughtered brutally on reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3ilyav/going_full_retard_bips_proposal_for_implementing/. If your BIPS is acceppted in github repo, I would gladly sing patriotic praises for you too !

Gavin and other devs have openly criticised this and similar BIPS for giving all powers to miners.
Having a BIP number does not prove passing the review mechanism. You can write any sensible change and get a BIP number for reference. BIP105 guy got a BIP number in the same way & guided Upal on how to get a BIP number. This BIP has not been incorporated in the client.

Since you read his BIP and understand it, can you help answer my doubts linked above; I'd gladly accept my mistakes.

If me having something better would be the only qualification for me to criticize something, then yes I have something but it is so weird that I am afraid to publish it (a proposal to reduce the blocksize to less than 1mb!) - PM me if you wanna discuss.