Again this should not be a political or business compromise model - we must focus on scientific evaluation, technical requirements and security.
But specifically as you asked a group of Chinese miners said they would not run it: http://cointelegraph.com/news/114657/chinese-mining-pools-call-for-consensus-refuse-switch-to-bitcoin-xt Imagine if we had a nuclear reactor design criteria - we would not be asking around with companies what parameter would they compromise on. We'd be looking to scientific analysis of what is safe, based on empirical and theoretical work on safety. If we're risking $4b of other peoples money (and a little bit of mine) I would strongly want a scientific approach. A closer analogy would be the NIST SHA3 design process. With crypto building blocks it is a security / speed tradeoff, a little analogous to the security / throughput trade off in Bitcoin. They do not ask companies or governments which algorithm they like or what parameter they'd compromise on. They have a design competition and analyse the algorithms and parameters for security margin and speed optimisation in hardware and software. Much effort is put in and it is very rigorous because a lot is at stake if they get it wrong. Adam On 3 August 2015 at 09:34, Hector Chu <hector...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 3 August 2015 at 08:16, Simon Liu via bitcoin-dev > <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: >> >> Increasing the block size shouldn't be a problem for Chinese miners. >> Five of the largest - F2Pool, Antpool, BW, BTCChina, Huobi - have >> already signed a draft agreement indicating they are fine with an >> increase to 8 MB: http://www.8btc.com/blocksize-increase-2 > > > What's the current stance of the Chinese pools on Bitcoin XT, should Bitcoin > Core refuse to increase the block size to 8 MB in a timely fashion? Would > they run it if the economic majority (e.g. Coinbase, Bitpay, etc.) publicly > stated their support for big blocks? _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing list bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
