[bitcoin-dev] An implementation of BIP102 as a softfork.

[joe2015 at openmailbox.org]

On 2016-01-05 09:26, joe2015--- via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> On 2016-01-05 02:04, Nick ODell wrote:
>> How are you collecting fees from the transactions in the block?
> 
> Probably the simplest way to do this is to map the new-rules coinbase
> tx (which collects the block reward and fees) into an old-rules legacy
> coinbase tx (which collects the block reward only).  Care must be
> taken to ensure the mapping is not reversible.  I will update my
> implementation in due course.

The redesigned implementation is here:

https://github.com/ZoomT/bitcoin/tree/2015_2mb_blocksize
https://github.com/jgarzik/bitcoin/compare/2015_2mb_blocksize...ZoomT:2015_2mb_blocksize

The new version maps the Merkle root onto a 'legacy' coinbase 
transaction, solving the problem with fees.

--joe.