Under this model would we still have reward halvings every 210,000 blocks? If so, the coin distribution phase will be doubled where the last coin will be mined in ~50 years instead of ~100 years which could be very bad. We would have to reduce the rewards in half as well if blocks were found every 5 minutes. To me that sounds much more drastic than lifting the blocksize.
There's also those miners that are not validating previous blocks because it takes 10 seconds away where they could be hashing. If we reduced the blocktime to 5 minutes, that will take an even larger percentage out of their hashing times where we can almost guarantee miners won't be validating newly found blocks.
While I am unaware of the exact thing that he has proposed, this is not drastic at all. Just to explain this to your; simplified: halve the block times to 5 minutes, and decrease the coin generation by half = problem solved and we are back on the ~100 years track. Note: I'm not saying that I support such a proposal.
XT is not necessary, stop spreading wrong information. There is no urgency to increase the block size limit. It needs to happen eventually, but not without proper testing and consensus.
To elaborate further why XT is dangerous and risky (technical part):
bug fix:If "relay the first observed double spend" were generally accepted as a bug with a clean fix available, it'd be fixed in Core; superficial searching says
it got reverted as problematic and contentious but I don't know the whole story, nor do I have an opinion on the change.
two minor things:One is for Hearn's Lighthouse project, and also got
merged, found buggy, and reverted. Without those eyeballs, would the lack of testing have been addressed and the bug in getutxos have been spotted before it was widely rolled out?
The other is adding back the bitnodes seed node that was removed for
behaving in fishy ways, and adding a seed run by Mike
Is XT basically going to be every patch Mike Hearn ever had refused by NACKs in Core? Where does that road take you as a user of XT? Simplified:
- Automatic blacklisting controlled by the Tor project (AFAIK without their consent).
- Buggy block size validation.
- Lighthouse slave support.
- Incomplete/buggy double spend detection.