Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP suggestion: PoW proportional to block transaction sum

2018-06-07 Thread Darren Weber via bitcoin-dev
Hi Thomas, Thanks for considering this suggestion. You've raised some interesting points (and concluded that it could be very difficult to implement). I'm not yet at a point where I could answer any questions about implementation details with any authority. With that caveat, your points are wor

Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP suggestion: PoW proportional to block transaction sum

2018-06-05 Thread Thomas Guyot-Sionnest via bitcoin-dev
On 30/05/18 12:17 PM, Darren Weber via bitcoin-dev wrote: > > Apologies for brevity, noob here and just throwing out an idea in case > it's useful (probably already covered somewhere, but I haven't got > time to do all the necessary background research). > > From https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/

[bitcoin-dev] BIP suggestion: PoW proportional to block transaction sum

2018-05-31 Thread Darren Weber via bitcoin-dev
Apologies for brevity, noob here and just throwing out an idea in case it's useful (probably already covered somewhere, but I haven't got time to do all the necessary background research). >From https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/13342 Suggestion: To make it more difficult for a malicious