[bitcoin-dev] Mempool size consensus + dynamic block size re-targetting

Peter Todd pete at petertodd.org
Wed Jun 24 02:43:44 UTC 2015


On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 10:24:03AM +0800, Filipe Farinha wrote:
> On 24/06/2015 10:15, Mark Friedenbach wrote:
> >
> >Anyone could lie.
> >
> True.
> What would be the incentive for the majority of transaction
> broadcasting full-nodes to lie about the mempool size?

It might help you to answer the following: If your mempool consensus
idea worked, could you use it to replace proof-of-work? Why? Why not?

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