Re: [Bitcoin-development] Popularity based mining (variable block reward)

2013-12-10 Thread Jorge Timón
This has been asked very recently: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=bitcoin-development And a thousand times on bitcointalk. On 12/10/13, Jameson Lopp wrote: > > "no reliance on external data" ... "depending on various factors (coin > valuation/exchange rate" > > ಠ_ಠ > -

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Popularity based mining (variable block reward)

2013-12-10 Thread Jameson Lopp
"no reliance on external data" ... "depending on various factors (coin valuation/exchange rate" ಠ_ಠ -- Jameson Lopp Software Engineer Bronto Software On 12/10/2013 11:23 AM, Jan Kučera wrote: > Basically there would be no reliance on external data as the network itself > would decide on reward h

[Bitcoin-development] Popularity based mining (variable block reward)

2013-12-10 Thread Jan Kučera
Hi there, I am not sure this wont be considered as off-topic here, but I did not find a better place to ask. My question is - has anybody here thought about the idea of variable block rewards where mining would essentially be popularity based? I mean in terms either improving Bitcoin's protocol or