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Re: bitcoin "unlimited" seeks review
by
adam3us
on 02/01/2016, 19:18:17 UTC
More review of both core and BU is recommended and encouraged.

Agree I was kind of hoping Aquentys would be able to explain what it is and how they think it works.  It saves time reviewing when people take the time to explain their assumptions.

Adam


Here are some links from kanzure on IRC (Aquentys started a discussion but wanted to continue on a forum for persistence):

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here is where peter rizun admitted that his assumptions in his "fee market" paper were totally broken: http://pastebin.com/jFgkk8M3
20:05 this pastebin paste was made by the same person too
20:06 here is some basic argumentation about big blocks and how increasing resource requirements kick off low-resource participants https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3yvkep/devs_are_strongly_against_increasing_the/cyhv7ev
here is why it doesn't matter if transaction fees can pay for big block orphan risk: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3yod27/greg_maxwell_was_wrong_transaction_fees_can_pay/cyfluso
20:07 here is why peter rizun's unhealthy fee market doesn't actually control block size https://np.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/3xkok3/reduce_orphaning_risk_and_improve/cy60r4y
20:08 here is why it is uninteresting to have a bunch of high-bandwidth miners having consensus just among themselves https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3ycizh/decentralizing_development_can_we_make_bitcoins/cycex9t
20:09 here is a roadmap for bitcoin core scalability increases that bitcoin core developers have been working on http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2015-December/011865.html
20:09 in particular for frequently asked questions see https://bitcoin.org/en/bitcoin-core/capacity-increases-faq

Adam