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Subject: [Bitcoin-development] Various block size proposals
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Here are some proposals regarding the minimum block size questions, as well
as other related scalability issues.

Dynamic block size limit controller (maaku)
https://www.mail-archive.com/bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net/msg07599.html
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/35c47x/a_proposal_to_expand_the_block_size/

Re: dynamic block size limit controller (gmaxwell)
https://www.mail-archive.com/bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net/msg07620.html

Various other gmaxwell-relayed ideas
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/37pv74/gavin_andresen_moves_ahead_with_push_for_bigger/crp2735

Increasing the max block size using a soft-fork (Tier Nolan)
https://www.mail-archive.com/bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net/msg07927.html

Elastic block cap with rollover penalties (Meni Rosenfield)
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1078521
worked example
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1078521.msg11557115#msg11557115
section 6.2.3 of https://cryptonote.org/whitepaper.pdf
rollover transaction fees https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=80387.0

Variable mining effort (gmaxwell)
http://sourceforge.net/p/bitcoin/mailman/message/34100485/

BIP100 Soft-fork limit of 2 MB (jgarzik)
http://gtf.org/garzik/bitcoin/BIP100-blocksizechangeproposal.pdf

Transaction fee targeting
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=176684.msg9416723#msg9416723

Difficulty target scaling
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/38937n/idea_make_the_difficulty_target_scale_with_block/

Annual 50% max block size increase
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/351dft/what_about_gavins_2014_proposal_of_having_block/

Various algorithmic adjustment proposals
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1865.0
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1owbpn/is_there_a_consensus_on_the_blocksize_limit_issue/ccwd7xh
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/35azxk/screw_the_hard_limit_lets_change_the_block_size/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/359y0i/quick_question_about_the_block_size_limit_issue/
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/385xqj/what_if_block_size_limits_were_set_to_increase/
http://www.age-of-bitcoin.com/dynamic-block-size-cap-scaling/
(against)
http://garzikrants.blogspot.com/2013/02/bitcoin-block-size-thoughts.html

Average over last 144 blocks
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/38fmra/max_block_size_2_average_size_of_last_144_blocks/

Extension blocks (Adam Back) (why would he burn this idea for something so
trivial?)
https://www.mail-archive.com/bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net/msg07937.html
https://www.mail-archive.com/bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net/msg08005.html
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/39kqzs/how_about_a_softfork_optin_blocksize_increase/
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/39hgzc/blockstream_cofounder_president_adam_back_phd_on/cs3tgss

Voting by paying to an address (note: vote censorship makes this
impractical, among other reasons)
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3863vw/a_brandnew_idea_for_resolving_the_blocksize_debate/
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1g0ywj/proposal_we_should_vote_on_the_blocksize_limit/
https://www.mail-archive.com/bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net/msg02325.html

Vote by paying fees
https://www.mail-archive.com/bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net/msg08164.html
https://www.mail-archive.com/bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net/msg02323.html

Double the max block size at each block reward halving
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/359jdc/just_double_the_max_blocksize_on_every_block/

Reducing the block rate instead of increasing the maximum block size
(Sergio Lerner)
https://www.mail-archive.com/bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net/msg07663.html
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/35kpgk/sergio_lerner_on_bitcoindevelopment_reducing_the/

Decrease block interval
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2vefmp/please_eli5_besides_increasing_the_block_size_why/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/35hpkt/please_remind_me_once_again_why_we_cant_decrease/

Increase default soft block size limit in Bitcoin Core
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/38i6qr/why_not_increase_the_default_block_size_limit/
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/6231

Consider the size of the utxo set when determining max block size (note
that utxo depth cannot have consensus)
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=153401.20

Reduce and decrease the max block size
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/381ygv/who_is_in_favour_of_reducing_the_blocksize_limit/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2vedt4/better_we_make_block_size_50kb_and_test/

Change the value of MAX_BLOCK_SIZE in Bitcoin Core
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=140233.0

Problems with floating block size limits (petertodd)
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=144895.0

Develop other ways to support high transaction volumes (gavinandresen)
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=96097.msg1059475#msg1059475

Simplified payment verification
https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

Lightning network
https://lightning.network/lightning-network-paper-DRAFT-0.5.pdf

GHOST
https://eprint.iacr.org/2013/881.pdf

Payment channels
https://bitcoinj.github.io/working-with-micropayments

Tree chains
http://www.mail-archive.com/bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net/msg04388.html
https://github.com/petertodd/tree-chains-paper

fedpeg + SPV
https://github.com/ElementsProject/elements/blob/7848ae0eed5506fb32872b6d74a12fd781aa3024/contrib/fedpeg/rotating_consensus.py

Known missing:
- old bitcoin-development proposals
- old bitcointalk proposals
- anything unique from IRC

On a related note, the other day I found that reading all of the -wizards
logs regarding sidechains only takes 2 hours. So... that's something. YMMV.

- Bryan
http://heybryan.org/
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<div dir=3D"ltr"><div>Here are some proposals regarding the minimum block s=
ize questions, as well as other related scalability issues.</div><div><br><=
/div><div>Dynamic block size limit controller (maaku)<br></div><div><a href=
=3D"https://www.mail-archive.com/bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net/=
msg07599.html">https://www.mail-archive.com/bitcoin-development@lists.sourc=
eforge.net/msg07599.html</a></div><div><a href=3D"https://www.reddit.com/r/=
Bitcoin/comments/35c47x/a_proposal_to_expand_the_block_size/">https://www.r=
eddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/35c47x/a_proposal_to_expand_the_block_size/</a=
></div><div><br></div><div>Re: dynamic block size limit controller (gmaxwel=
l)</div><div><a href=3D"https://www.mail-archive.com/bitcoin-development@li=
sts.sourceforge.net/msg07620.html">https://www.mail-archive.com/bitcoin-dev=
elopment@lists.sourceforge.net/msg07620.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>V=
arious other gmaxwell-relayed ideas</div><div><a href=3D"http://www.reddit.=
com/r/Bitcoin/comments/37pv74/gavin_andresen_moves_ahead_with_push_for_bigg=
er/crp2735">http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/37pv74/gavin_andresen_=
moves_ahead_with_push_for_bigger/crp2735</a></div><div><br></div><div>Incre=
asing the max block size using a soft-fork (Tier Nolan)</div><div><a href=
=3D"https://www.mail-archive.com/bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net/=
msg07927.html">https://www.mail-archive.com/bitcoin-development@lists.sourc=
eforge.net/msg07927.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>Elastic block cap wit=
h rollover penalties (Meni Rosenfield)</div><div><a href=3D"https://bitcoin=
talk.org/index.php?topic=3D1078521">https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=
=3D1078521</a></div><div>worked example <a href=3D"https://bitcointalk.org/=
index.php?topic=3D1078521.msg11557115#msg11557115">https://bitcointalk.org/=
index.php?topic=3D1078521.msg11557115#msg11557115</a></div><div>section 6.2=
.3 of <a href=3D"https://cryptonote.org/whitepaper.pdf">https://cryptonote.=
org/whitepaper.pdf</a></div><div>rollover transaction fees <a href=3D"https=
://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3D80387.0">https://bitcointalk.org/index=
.php?topic=3D80387.0</a></div><div><br></div><div>Variable mining effort (g=
maxwell)</div><div><a href=3D"http://sourceforge.net/p/bitcoin/mailman/mess=
age/34100485/">http://sourceforge.net/p/bitcoin/mailman/message/34100485/</=
a></div><div><br></div><div>BIP100 Soft-fork limit of 2 MB (jgarzik)</div><=
div><a href=3D"http://gtf.org/garzik/bitcoin/BIP100-blocksizechangeproposal=
.pdf">http://gtf.org/garzik/bitcoin/BIP100-blocksizechangeproposal.pdf</a><=
/div><div><br></div><div>Transaction fee targeting</div><div><a href=3D"htt=
ps://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3D176684.msg9416723#msg9416723">https:=
//bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3D176684.msg9416723#msg9416723</a></div><=
div><br></div><div>Difficulty target scaling</div><div><a href=3D"https://w=
ww.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/38937n/idea_make_the_difficulty_target_sca=
le_with_block/">https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/38937n/idea_make_=
the_difficulty_target_scale_with_block/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Annual=
 50% max block size increase</div><div><a href=3D"https://www.reddit.com/r/=
Bitcoin/comments/351dft/what_about_gavins_2014_proposal_of_having_block/">h=
ttps://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/351dft/what_about_gavins_2014_prop=
osal_of_having_block/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Various algorithmic adju=
stment proposals</div><div><a href=3D"https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?top=
ic=3D1865.0">https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3D1865.0</a></div><div=
><a href=3D"https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1owbpn/is_there_a_con=
sensus_on_the_blocksize_limit_issue/ccwd7xh">https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitco=
in/comments/1owbpn/is_there_a_consensus_on_the_blocksize_limit_issue/ccwd7x=
h</a></div><div><a href=3D"https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/35azxk=
/screw_the_hard_limit_lets_change_the_block_size/">https://www.reddit.com/r=
/Bitcoin/comments/35azxk/screw_the_hard_limit_lets_change_the_block_size/</=
a></div><div><a href=3D"https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/359y0i/qu=
ick_question_about_the_block_size_limit_issue/">https://www.reddit.com/r/Bi=
tcoin/comments/359y0i/quick_question_about_the_block_size_limit_issue/</a><=
/div><div><a href=3D"http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/385xqj/what_i=
f_block_size_limits_were_set_to_increase/">http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/=
comments/385xqj/what_if_block_size_limits_were_set_to_increase/</a></div><d=
iv><a href=3D"http://www.age-of-bitcoin.com/dynamic-block-size-cap-scaling/=
">http://www.age-of-bitcoin.com/dynamic-block-size-cap-scaling/</a></div><d=
iv>(against) <a href=3D"http://garzikrants.blogspot.com/2013/02/bitcoin-blo=
ck-size-thoughts.html">http://garzikrants.blogspot.com/2013/02/bitcoin-bloc=
k-size-thoughts.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>Average over last 144 blo=
cks</div><div><a href=3D"http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/38fmra/ma=
x_block_size_2_average_size_of_last_144_blocks/">http://www.reddit.com/r/Bi=
tcoin/comments/38fmra/max_block_size_2_average_size_of_last_144_blocks/</a>=
</div><div><br></div><div>Extension blocks (Adam Back) (why would he burn t=
his idea for something so trivial?)</div><div><a href=3D"https://www.mail-a=
rchive.com/bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net/msg07937.html">https:/=
/www.mail-archive.com/bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net/msg07937.ht=
ml</a></div><div><a href=3D"https://www.mail-archive.com/bitcoin-developmen=
t@lists.sourceforge.net/msg08005.html">https://www.mail-archive.com/bitcoin=
-development@lists.sourceforge.net/msg08005.html</a></div><div><a href=3D"h=
ttp://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/39kqzs/how_about_a_softfork_optin_b=
locksize_increase/">http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/39kqzs/how_abo=
ut_a_softfork_optin_blocksize_increase/</a></div><div><a href=3D"http://www=
.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/39hgzc/blockstream_cofounder_president_adam_=
back_phd_on/cs3tgss">http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/39hgzc/blocks=
tream_cofounder_president_adam_back_phd_on/cs3tgss</a></div><div><br></div>=
<div>Voting by paying to an address (note: vote censorship makes this impra=
ctical, among other reasons)</div><div><a href=3D"http://www.reddit.com/r/B=
itcoin/comments/3863vw/a_brandnew_idea_for_resolving_the_blocksize_debate/"=
>http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3863vw/a_brandnew_idea_for_resolv=
ing_the_blocksize_debate/</a></div><div><a href=3D"http://www.reddit.com/r/=
Bitcoin/comments/1g0ywj/proposal_we_should_vote_on_the_blocksize_limit/">ht=
tp://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1g0ywj/proposal_we_should_vote_on_th=
e_blocksize_limit/</a></div><div><a href=3D"https://www.mail-archive.com/bi=
tcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net/msg02325.html">https://www.mail-arc=
hive.com/bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net/msg02325.html</a></div><=
div><br></div><div>Vote by paying fees</div><div><a href=3D"https://www.mai=
l-archive.com/bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net/msg08164.html">http=
s://www.mail-archive.com/bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net/msg08164=
.html</a></div><div><a href=3D"https://www.mail-archive.com/bitcoin-develop=
ment@lists.sourceforge.net/msg02323.html">https://www.mail-archive.com/bitc=
oin-development@lists.sourceforge.net/msg02323.html</a></div><div><br></div=
><div>Double the max block size at each block reward halving</div><div><a h=
ref=3D"https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/359jdc/just_double_the_max=
_blocksize_on_every_block/">https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/359jd=
c/just_double_the_max_blocksize_on_every_block/</a></div><div><br></div><di=
v>Reducing the block rate instead of increasing the maximum block size (Ser=
gio Lerner)</div><div><a href=3D"https://www.mail-archive.com/bitcoin-devel=
opment@lists.sourceforge.net/msg07663.html">https://www.mail-archive.com/bi=
tcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net/msg07663.html</a></div><div><a href=
=3D"https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/35kpgk/sergio_lerner_on_bitco=
indevelopment_reducing_the/">https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/35kp=
gk/sergio_lerner_on_bitcoindevelopment_reducing_the/</a></div><div><br></di=
v><div>Decrease block interval</div><div><a href=3D"https://www.reddit.com/=
r/Bitcoin/comments/2vefmp/please_eli5_besides_increasing_the_block_size_why=
/">https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2vefmp/please_eli5_besides_inc=
reasing_the_block_size_why/</a></div><div><a href=3D"https://www.reddit.com=
/r/Bitcoin/comments/35hpkt/please_remind_me_once_again_why_we_cant_decrease=
/">https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/35hpkt/please_remind_me_once_a=
gain_why_we_cant_decrease/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Increase default so=
ft block size limit in Bitcoin Core</div><div><a href=3D"http://www.reddit.=
com/r/Bitcoin/comments/38i6qr/why_not_increase_the_default_block_size_limit=
/">http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/38i6qr/why_not_increase_the_def=
ault_block_size_limit/</a></div><div><a href=3D"https://github.com/bitcoin/=
bitcoin/pull/6231">https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/6231</a></div><d=
iv><br></div><div>Consider the size of the utxo set when determining max bl=
ock size (note that utxo depth cannot have consensus)</div><div><a href=3D"=
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3D153401.20">https://bitcointalk.or=
g/index.php?topic=3D153401.20</a></div><div><br></div><div>Reduce and decre=
ase the max block size</div><div><a href=3D"https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoi=
n/comments/381ygv/who_is_in_favour_of_reducing_the_blocksize_limit/">https:=
//www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/381ygv/who_is_in_favour_of_reducing_the=
_blocksize_limit/</a></div><div><a href=3D"https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin=
/comments/2vedt4/better_we_make_block_size_50kb_and_test/">https://www.redd=
it.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2vedt4/better_we_make_block_size_50kb_and_test/</=
a></div><div><br></div><div>Change the value of MAX_BLOCK_SIZE in Bitcoin C=
ore</div><div><a href=3D"https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3D140233.0=
">https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3D140233.0</a></div><div><br></di=
v><div>Problems with floating block size limits (petertodd)</div><div><a hr=
ef=3D"https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3D144895.0">https://bitcointa=
lk.org/index.php?topic=3D144895.0</a></div><div><br></div><div>Develop othe=
r ways to support high transaction volumes (gavinandresen)</div><div><a hre=
f=3D"https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3D96097.msg1059475#msg1059475"=
>https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3D96097.msg1059475#msg1059475</a><=
/div><div><br></div><div>Simplified payment verification</div><div><a href=
=3D"https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf">https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf</a></d=
iv><div><br></div><div>Lightning network</div><div><a href=3D"https://light=
ning.network/lightning-network-paper-DRAFT-0.5.pdf">https://lightning.netwo=
rk/lightning-network-paper-DRAFT-0.5.pdf</a></div><div><br></div><div>GHOST=
</div><div><a href=3D"https://eprint.iacr.org/2013/881.pdf">https://eprint.=
iacr.org/2013/881.pdf</a></div><div><br></div><div>Payment channels</div><d=
iv><a href=3D"https://bitcoinj.github.io/working-with-micropayments">https:=
//bitcoinj.github.io/working-with-micropayments</a></div><div><br></div><di=
v>Tree chains</div><div><a href=3D"http://www.mail-archive.com/bitcoin-deve=
lopment@lists.sourceforge.net/msg04388.html">http://www.mail-archive.com/bi=
tcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net/msg04388.html</a></div><div><a href=
=3D"https://github.com/petertodd/tree-chains-paper">https://github.com/pete=
rtodd/tree-chains-paper</a></div><div><br></div><div>fedpeg + SPV</div><div=
><a href=3D"https://github.com/ElementsProject/elements/blob/7848ae0eed5506=
fb32872b6d74a12fd781aa3024/contrib/fedpeg/rotating_consensus.py">https://gi=
thub.com/ElementsProject/elements/blob/7848ae0eed5506fb32872b6d74a12fd781aa=
3024/contrib/fedpeg/rotating_consensus.py</a></div><div><br></div><div>Know=
n missing:</div><div>- old bitcoin-development proposals</div><div>- old bi=
tcointalk proposals</div><div>- anything unique from IRC</div><div><br></di=
v><div>On a related note, the other day I found that reading all of the -wi=
zards logs regarding sidechains only takes 2 hours. So... that&#39;s someth=
ing. YMMV.</div><div><br></div><div class=3D"gmail_signature">- Bryan<br><a=
 href=3D"http://heybryan.org/" target=3D"_blank">http://heybryan.org/</a><b=
r>1 512 203 0507</div>
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