[Bitcoin-development] User vote in blocksize through fees

Luke Dashjr luke at dashjr.org
Fri Jun 12 23:11:43 UTC 2015


On Friday, June 12, 2015 11:01:02 PM Vincent Truong wrote:
> RE: miner economics
> Miners who have an agenda can forego fees to achieve it and create their
> own txns if it is completely txn/user driven. It is better to just count
> miners votes and let the user votes be their backing.

Just simplify this? Allow a miner to have their block counted as <max possible 
votes> votes for X provided not a single transaction they include votes 
against it. Then miners can explicitly forego the fees of opposing 
transactions without having to bloat blocks.

Luke




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