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On 23 July 2015 20:49:20 GMT-04:00, Jean-Paul Kogelman via bitcoin-dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
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>And it's obvious how a size cap would interfere with such a QoS scheme.
>Miners wouldn't be able to deliver the below guarantees if they have to
>start excluding transactions.

As mining is a random, poisson process, obviously giving guarantees without a majority of hashing power isn't possible.


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