Quote from: garlonicon on Today at 06:56:35 PM

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Current difficulty based weighting systems do not take the intrinsic block weight into account.

And it is good that they don't. Because this change will lower requirements for chain reorganization. If I understand it correctly, this proposal is about using chainwork based on the current block, instead of difficulty. Those kind of changes were also discussed in other topics.

If you look at the paper it is not just proposing you change chain work but that you simultaneously change the calculation of tip weight from very roughly being Td_new = Td_old + Td_threshold to Td_new = Td_old * Td_chainwork. That would make both chain work and chain weight geometric which would actually improve finalization time by minimizing conflicts and maximizing recorded work.