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Topic: [XMR] Monero Speculation - page 1640. (Read 3313576 times)

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Spastic dead-eyed hound.
November 18, 2015, 02:24:59 PM
Hey guys, just posted a video on /r/monero I think you guys would enjoy... randomly found this guy on youtube the other night and love this guys series.  When you get some time I think you should check it out.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/3tbwf0/why_i_believe_xmr_will_be_superior_and_that_the/
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November 18, 2015, 02:12:20 PM

Notice the on top and from github:

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# TOTALLY NOT TESTED AND LIKELY BROKEN AT THIS POINT; AWAITING A TEST SUITE
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November 18, 2015, 01:49:03 PM
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Doomed to see the future and unable to prevent it
November 18, 2015, 01:47:55 PM
when monero will rise in price

Tomorrow 12pm EST
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November 18, 2015, 01:42:52 PM
when monero will rise in price

soon.
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November 18, 2015, 01:40:46 PM
when monero will rise in price
legendary
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November 18, 2015, 12:53:17 PM
We have bounced off 122k sat thrice now, hopefully it will hold.
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November 18, 2015, 09:44:26 AM
But bigger block size limit leads to centralization  Tongue

PoW leads to centralization. It's absolutely inevitable that mining will converge to a few mega farms as the profit margin narrows to microcents, where anyone with a processor has the sense to spend their money best at the market.

It should be apparent by now that the role of blockchain finance is clearly not to be secured by solely decentralized means, in the sense that you individually play any major part in securing the network. This excludes mega farms. More that mega farms either become subsidized, or publicly traded conglomerates. Likely nodes would need to be subsidized, due to lack of incentive other than providing commons. Or, the costs of operating nodes gets built into the infrastructure. Like the store you shop at pays a fee, which is used to set up and establish nodes that are managed by a publicly funded organization.

As long as your transactions are susceptible to withholding, block size and blockchain size really don't make much of an impression. What good is having a cap on block size, if after all is said and done, your finances are on a 'time-out' by a centralized mining operation, because there's no room in the block?
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November 18, 2015, 09:34:01 AM

Quote: Bitcoin’s Decentralization increases as a full node becomes cheaper.

No. Haha. I have no idea why such a flawed way of thinking exists.

My question is if the cost of maintaining a full node is zero, which are the incentives that drive user to do it? Cost is just part of function.  Tongue

(If cost of a meal is zero, I don't think that I will eat for all day  Tongue)

I still think that unlimited block size limit in Monero is a feature. Let user adoption drive decentralization.
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Crypto is the separation of Power and State.
November 18, 2015, 07:04:07 AM
But bigger block size limit leads to centralization  Tongue

I'd like to hear one of the most prominent Monero promoter Icebreaker's opinion on the bloating-as-scaling desperation.

http://www.truthcoin.info/blog/measuring-decentralization/
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November 18, 2015, 06:35:26 AM
But bigger block size limit leads to centralization  Tongue

I'd like to hear one of the most prominent Monero promoter Icebreaker's opinion on the bloating-as-scaling desperation.
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November 18, 2015, 06:08:47 AM
Says who? Bitcoin Maximalists?

If we take Bitcoin with a hypothetical blocksize of 20MB every 10 minutes, this would cause a roughly 170gb per month traffic on a full node for incoming blocks, so no there is plenty of room to grow. Especially if we look 10 years in the future where bandwith, storage and cpu processing power will be even cheaper, heck even with 20mb btc blocks i can run a full node on the cheapest of cheap VPS providers.


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Stillstand ist Rückschritt. - Rudolf von Bennigsen-Foerder

Stagnation is regress.
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November 18, 2015, 05:25:38 AM
But bigger block size limit leads to centralization  Tongue
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LEALANA Bitcoin Grim Reaper
November 18, 2015, 04:47:50 AM
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Nothing happens to empty blocks. Blocks can include up to 60 KB of transactions without any penalty (60 KB/2 min so 50% increase from the current 20 KB/1 min). Above 60 KB, more transactions can still be added up to double the current full reward zone size but they will incur a penalty. The 60 KB full reward zone can grow (and then subsequently can shrink) based on the median size of previous blocks.



This is why Monero, unlike most POW coins, does not have a max blocksize issue such as the 1 MB blocksize limit in Bitcoin.

This +1

So much less wasted energy/time/resources debating such a small technical issue.
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Monero Core Team
November 18, 2015, 01:35:49 AM
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Nothing happens to empty blocks. Blocks can include up to 60 KB of transactions without any penalty (60 KB/2 min so 50% increase from the current 20 KB/1 min). Above 60 KB, more transactions can still be added up to double the current full reward zone size but they will incur a penalty. The 60 KB full reward zone can grow (and then subsequently can shrink) based on the median size of previous blocks.



This is why Monero, unlike most POW coins, does not have a max blocksize issue such as the 1 MB blocksize limit in Bitcoin.
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November 18, 2015, 12:04:27 AM

Yes that is right. The block time and 60 KB full reward zone (minimum amount of transactions allowed in each block without any penalty) can't be changed without a hard fork, so that will wait until April or so. Most of the features of 0.9 will be active right away though.

So,

+ An increase in block time: 1 to 2 minutes, available but effective until April 2016
+ 60 KB full reward zone? What does it really mean? What happens to miners those who try to create block without transactions (empty block) or create blocks with full of low-value transactions?

Nothing happens to empty blocks. Blocks can include up to 60 KB of transactions without any penalty (60 KB/2 min so 50% increase from the current 20 KB/1 min). Above 60 KB, more transactions can still be added up to double the current full reward zone size but they will incur a penalty. The 60 KB full reward zone can grow (and then subsequently can shrink) based on the median size of previous blocks.

legendary
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November 17, 2015, 11:47:04 PM

Yes that is right. The block time and 60 KB full reward zone (minimum amount of transactions allowed in each block without any penalty) can't be changed without a hard fork, so that will wait until April or so. Most of the features of 0.9 will be active right away though.

So,

+ An increase in block time: 1 to 2 minutes, available but effective until April 2016
+ 60 KB full reward zone? What does it really mean? What happens to miners those who try to create block without transactions (empty block) or create blocks with full of low-value transactions?
legendary
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November 17, 2015, 06:56:49 PM

If I recall correctly, fluffypony stated a while ago that they were waiting for i2p to have a stable release before it would be integrated into Monero.

That, and 0.9 is well past a feature freeze state. It is being prepared for release.
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