Quote from: zatoichi on December 29, 2013, 08:01:40 PM

I am actually surprised that you would not be behind an enhancement for increased security.

Oh, I'm certainly interested in increased security, I'm just not convinced that your suggestion could be implemented, nor that it would increase security.

Quote from: zatoichi on December 29, 2013, 08:01:40 PM

As for implementation all you would need would be a single field in the header showing how much of the fee can be recovered based of the network size at time of creation (e.g. network size=1, recovery ratio=0).

And in a peer-to-peer system, how would you determine "network size"? How would you know when the transaction was created? What would you do with the unrecovered portion of the fee? There are so many details about how the protocol works that you are choosing to simply overlook. Overlooking details is a great way to break a system.

Quote from: zatoichi on December 29, 2013, 08:01:40 PM

Some work might have to be done to determine optimal network size and the exact nature of the curve. I have asked in multiple places how big the current network is but got not a single answer.

That's because it is a peer-to-peer decentralized system. There is no reliable way to know what the "network size" is, and there is no reliable way to know if the netowork size will be smaller or larger a few seconds from now.

Quote from: zatoichi on December 29, 2013, 08:01:40 PM

Of course it changes but not even a ballpark figure?

Impossible to know. Perhaps there is just a single miner doing all the mining? Perhaps there are a few trillion individuals all mining with CPU power? How would any one node tell the difference? The only thing any node knows about the network is the number of nodes it is connected to, and it can't even trust that since a single node could connect from multiple IP addresses.

Quote from: zatoichi on December 29, 2013, 08:01:40 PM

I mean come on, count the nodes in the blockchain. Unfortunately I am not that technically proficient.

There are not any nodes "in the blockchain". The blockchain is just a history of transactions and a headers.