[Bitcoin-development] SatoshiDice and Near-term scalability

Mike Hearn mike at plan99.net
Sat Jun 16 08:30:30 UTC 2012


Joseph is quite accommodating and doesn't want to hurt the network.
That said "asking him to stop" seems like the worst possible solution
possible. His site is quite reasonable.

I think if I fix bitcoinj to have smarter fee code he might stop
attaching a small fee to every TX, but I'm not sure.

On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 6:33 AM, Amir Taaki <zgenjix at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Did anyone try sending them an email asking them to stop or offering help to fix their site? What did they say? I'm sure they would try to be accomodating.
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jonathan Warren <jonathan at bitcoinstats.org>
> To: bitcoin-development at lists.sourceforge.net
> Cc:
> Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2012 4:35 AM
> Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] SatoshiDice and Near-term scalability
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> Yes, I measure mainnet confirmation times on a regular basis.
> http://bitcoinstats.org/post/tx-confirmation-times-June2012.png
>
> Before fairly recently, fee-paying transactions never took anywhere close to
> this long to be confirmed.
>
> Jonathan Warren
> (Bitcointalk: Atheros)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Garzik [mailto:jgarzik at exmulti.com]
> Sent: Friday, June 15, 2012 1:17 PM
> To: bitcoin-development at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Bitcoin-development] SatoshiDice and Near-term scalability
>
> Hard-fork requires a very high level of community buy-in, because it shuts
> out older clients who will simply refuse to consider >1MB blocks valid.
>
> Anything approaching that level of change would need some good, hard data
> indicating that SatoshiDice was shutting out the majority of other traffic.
> Does anyone measure mainnet "normal tx" confirmation times on a regular
> basis?  Any other hard data?
>
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