Re: [Bitcoin-development] Distributing low POW headers

2013-07-28 Thread Tier Nolan
On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 7:42 PM, John Dillon wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 11:55 AM, Tier Nolan wrote: > > Distributing headers with 1/64 of the standard POW means that a header > would > > be broadcast approximately once every 9 seconds (a

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Distributing low POW headers

2013-07-28 Thread John Dillon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 11:55 AM, Tier Nolan wrote: > Distributing headers with 1/64 of the standard POW means that a header would > be broadcast approximately once every 9 seconds (assuming a 10 minute block > time). This was picked because sendin

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Distributing low POW headers

2013-07-24 Thread Tier Nolan
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 10:42 AM, Peter Todd wrote: > Please provide equations and data justifying the 'magic constants' in > this proposal. > The are a range of workable values. Ideally, there would first need to be agreement on the general principle. Distributing headers with 1/64 of the sta

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Distributing low POW headers

2013-07-24 Thread Peter Todd
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 12:27:03PM +0100, Tier Nolan wrote: > I was thinking about a change to the rules for distinguishing between forks > and maybe a BIP.. Please provide equations and data justifying the 'magic constants' in this proposal. Currently we do not relay blocks to peers if they conf

[Bitcoin-development] Distributing low POW headers

2013-07-23 Thread Tier Nolan
I was thinking about a change to the rules for distinguishing between forks and maybe a BIP.. *Summary* - Low POW headers should be broadcast by the network If a header has more than 1/64 of the POW of a block, it should be broadcast. This provides information on which fork is getting most of t