This update strengthens the incentive not to confirm double-spends after time T (30 seconds). To grow and stabilize adoption, it is necessary to influence the miner of the block after a deprecated block, who in turn is concerned with the block after that. Accordingly, the disincentive is changed from a simple delay to a temporary chain work penalty, which can be negative. Hal Finney first suggested this in 2011.
The penalty is graduated in two steps based on the respend gap, for reasons explained within. I believe it is the minimum required to achieve the intended result. Double-Spend Deprecation Window https://github.com/dgenr8/out-there/blob/master/ds-dep-win.md ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming. The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
