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> On 9 May 2017, at 21:49, Sergio Demian Lerner via bitcoin-dev =
<bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>=20
>=20
> So it seems the 75% discount has been chosen with the idea that in the =
future the current transaction pattern will shift towards multisigs. =
This is not a bad idea, as it's the only direction Bitcoin can scale =
without a HF.=20
> But it's a bad idea if we end up doing, for example, a 2X blocksize =
increase HF in the future. In that case it's much better to use a 50% =
witness discount, and do not make scaling risky by making the worse case =
block size 8 Mbytes, when it could have been 2*2.7=3D5.4 Mbytes.
>=20
As we could change any parameter in a hardfork, I don=E2=80=99t think =
this has any relation with the current BIP141 proposal. We could just =
use 75% in a softfork, and change that to a different value (or =
completely redefine the definition of weight) with a hardfork later.
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