Quote from: -ck on February 20, 2017, 10:54:43 PM

Quote from: jbreher on February 20, 2017, 09:35:28 PM

I wonder who may have an incentive to code up an alternative implementation? Maybe somebody who already has millions of dollars tied up in capital equipment - someone whose continued profitability requires making any optimization allowed by the protocol...

I'd be happy to write a new client with emphasis purely on performance and scalability from scratch... if someone wanted to throw large sums of money at me to do so and keep sending me more indefinitely to maintain and update it.

maintain it indefinitely..?
a node should function without total reliance on one man to control what nodes do or dont do

if you just stuck to simple rules rather than half baked rules that skip around the issue with half promises im sure you can get some VC funding.

segwit for instance is not a final fix.. its not even an initial fix. malicious users will simply avoid using segwit keys and stick to native keys.

even schnorr is not a solution because again malicious people just wont use those keys. as it serves no benefit for those wanting to bloat and cause issues.

however finding real beneficial solutions such as a new 'priority' formulae that actually has a real purpose and solves a real problem, benefits everyone and knowing your in the pool dev arena.. thats something you should concentrate on