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Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2015 19:36:45 +0100
From: Peter Todd <pete@petertodd.org>
To: Matt Whitlock <bip@mattwhitlock.name>
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Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] User vote in blocksize through fees
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On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 02:26:20PM -0400, Matt Whitlock wrote:
> On Friday, 12 June 2015, at 11:20 am, Mark Friedenbach wrote:
> > Peter it's not clear to me that your described protocol is free of miner
> > influence over the vote, by artificially generating transactions which =
they
> > claim in their own blocks
>=20
> Miners could fill their blocks with garbage transactions that agree with =
their vote, but this wouldn't bring them any real income, as they'd be payi=
ng their own money as fees to themselves. To get real income, miners would =
have to vote in accordance with real users.

Exactly. I very explicitly am proposing that we consider giving users a
mechanism to pay for votes to give them a way to directly influence the
outcome.

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