Author: Jorge Timón 2017-09-30 03:53:00
Published on: 2017-09-30T03:53:00+00:00
On the Bitcoin-dev mailing list, a discussion was held about preventing "outlier behavior" in mining. Mark Friedenbach suggested that under continuous mempool model assumptions, such behavior would be considered an outlier and could be prevented with a maximum fee rate calculated as a filter over past block rates. However, Daniele Pinna raised a concern that such a scheme could incentivize miners to limit the number of transactions in a block in order to capture the maximum fee and avoid lower fee paying transactions reducing their potential earnings. This could potentially lead to clogging of the network by a single user paying high fees every ten minutes. The debate continued on the mailing list without any clear resolution on how to prevent such behavior.
Updated on: 2023-06-12T19:13:10.037864+00:00