Received: from sog-mx-2.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com ([172.29.43.192] helo=mx.sourceforge.net) by sfs-ml-2.v29.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1XjyzV-00070l-U0 for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Thu, 30 Oct 2014 23:18:53 +0000 X-ACL-Warn: Received: from ozlabs.org ([103.22.144.67]) by sog-mx-2.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) id 1XjyzU-0004FD-Bx for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Thu, 30 Oct 2014 23:18:53 +0000 Received: by ozlabs.org (Postfix, from userid 1011) id 7E552140082; Fri, 31 Oct 2014 10:18:44 +1100 (AEDT) From: Rusty Russell To: "Bitcoin Dev" User-Agent: Notmuch/0.17 (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/24.3.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 09:48:34 +1030 Message-ID: <874mul9met.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Spam-Score: -0.6 (/) X-Spam-Report: Spam Filtering performed by mx.sourceforge.net. See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. -0.6 RP_MATCHES_RCVD Envelope sender domain matches handover relay domain X-Headers-End: 1XjyzU-0004FD-Bx Subject: [Bitcoin-development] Increasing regularity of block times? X-BeenThere: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 23:18:54 -0000 Hi all, I've been toying with an algorithm to place a ceiling on confirmation latency by allowing weaker blocks after a certain time. Hope this isn't noise, but thought someone must have considered this before, or know of flaws in the scheme? Gory details: http://rustyrussell.github.io/pettycoin/2014/10/30/More-Regular-Block-Times.html Thanks, Rusty.