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Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] [BUG]: Bitcoin blockspace price discrimination
put simple transactions at disadvantage
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On Wed, Dec 27, 2023 at 11:39=E2=80=AFPM Keagan McClelland
<keagan.mcclelland@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > As a result, there are incentives structure distorted and critical
> inefficiencies/vulnerabilities (e.g. misallocation of block space,
> blockspace value destruction, disincentivized simple transaction,
> centralization around complex transactions originators).
>
> Can you please describe the mechanism here?
Sure. Because of the preferential treatment there is incentive to
bloat the underpriced part of transaction data (so-called Witness) at
the expense of a number of genuine, simple transactions and so a
number of updates in the ledger. Blockspace is allocated to useless,
irrelevant data that don't affect state of Bitcoin, e.g. the
transaction 1c35521798dde4d1621e9aa5a3bacac03100fca40b6fb99be546ec50c1bcbd4=
a
could have been stripped of bloat and UTXO set wouldn't have changed;
at the same time the freed space could have been allocated to a simple
transaction that updates UTXO set (improving cost effectivness at the
same time).
Additionally, bloated transactions are bigger and so require more time
to be downloaded during Initial Block Download - wasting bandwith
(cost borne by node operators).
>
> > Price of blockspace should be the same for any data (1 byte =3D 1 byte,
> irrespectively of location inside or outside of witness), e.g. 205/205
> and 767/767 bytes in the examples above.
>
> "Should" ... to what end?
"Should" in order to avoid hazard of centralization. A single bidder
who takes advantage of "buy 1 get 3 megabytes free" may outcompete a
number of individuals whose simple transactions recieve
anti-preferential treatment - "buy 1 get 0.33 megabytes free" in
aggregate. There is the illustration at:
"https://gregtonoski.github.io/bitcoin/segwit-mispricing/Comparison_of_4MB_=
and_1.33MB_blocks_in_Bitcoin.pdf".
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