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tomz,<br /><br />Lots of good ideas on improving Bitcoin software in this thread from various sides, thanks for raising the topic.<br /><br />But I do have to correct something you wrote in your last post:<br /><br />> Remember, with the large number of ABC nodes on the Cash network, we can’t <br />relay and mine zero-fee transactions. But we used to have such transactions <br />and we want to get back to that.<br /><br />I believe you know that nearly 30% of Cash network nodes are ABC 0.15.0 which ought to allow relaying and mining of transactions per default configuration. In addition to those there are other clients that do too.<br /><br />If Miners may not yet have implemented this policy for whatever reasons, but I believe that claiming this is due to ABC code is factually inaccurate.<br />If you know of technical reasons why the current ABC code would not permit relay/mining of zero-fee transactions, please let me know.<br /><br />Looking into why not more zero-fee transactions are mined [1], I found that some recently included high-ouput-numbers transactions that were speculated to be part of some attack preparation (I think this assumption was later questioned by Andrew Chow in a well-reasoned post on Reddit which won't dig up now...)<br /><br />However, maybe some uncertainty around that plays a part in why they are not mined more frequently currently. I think we won't really know unless miners tell us why.<br /><br />[1] <a href="https://blockchair.com/bitcoin-cash/transactions?q=is_coinbase%280%29,fee%280%29&s=time%28desc%29" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://blockchair.com/bitcoin-cash/transactions?q=is_coinbase%280%29,fee%280%29&s=time%28desc%29</a><br /><br />
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<br /><p><a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="mailto:freetrader@tuta.io">freetrader@tuta.io</a><br /></p>GPG fingerprint: CC32 9A4F B0E4 1392 8295 05FE C07A 7C34 5E86 B06C<br /><br /><br /><br />21. Sep 2017 11:32 by <a href="mailto:bitcoin-ml@lists.linuxfoundation.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">bitcoin-ml@lists.linuxfoundation.org</a>:<br /><br /><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;">On Thursday, 21 September 2017 11:13:52 CEST Tomas via bitcoin-ml wrote:<blockquote>The term priority is used in this thread but it isn't really relevant if<br />blocks aren't full, and I believe we will raise the blocksize in time to<br />prevent it from ever happening.</blockquote><br />That would be nice, but that idea is not realistic.<br />If this were the case then the “backup my harddrive to the blockchain” <br />scenarios would become reality, and that just doesn’t make any sense.<br /><br />Remember, with the large number of ABC nodes on the Cash network, we can’t <br />relay and mine zero-fee transactions. But we used to have such transactions <br />and we want to get back to that.<br /><br />As such we need a bit of blocksize pressure, to avoid people coming to the <br />conclusion that they can use the Bitcoin Cash chain for everything they <br />want. Remember that huge thread about DNS entries on the blockchain and <br />Satoshi stating that the blockchain is a generic database for all things.<br />He was right, and we must keep that warning in mind.<br /><br />The priorities in the OP mail are relevant to avoid such a set up from being <br />easy to spam and denying service to normal customers.<br />-- <br />Tom Zander<br />Blog: <a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://zander.github.io">https://zander.github.io</a><br />Vlog: <a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://vimeo.com/channels/tomscryptochannel">https://vimeo.com/channels/tomscryptochannel</a><br />_______________________________________________<br />bitcoin-ml mailing list<br /><a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="mailto:bitcoin-ml@lists.linuxfoundation.org">bitcoin-ml@lists.linuxfoundation.org</a><br /><a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-ml">https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-ml</a></blockquote> </body>
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