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Title: So what is this proposal BIP100?
Post by: OmegaStarScream on April 21, 2017, 07:30:58 PM
As some of you already know, bitcointalk was down for some hours for some people, I took the chance to check reddit as I'm not that active there. I found out about this new BIP100 that everyone is talking about.

I want to know what is it and how different is it from BU and would SegWit supporters support this BIP100? If that's the case then I don't see why miners didn't start signalling it yet. I found out that this proposal is not really "new" but has been proposed 2015 and not sure what happened at that time.


Title: Re: So what is this proposal BIP100?
Post by: AngryDwarf on April 21, 2017, 07:41:07 PM
BIP 100 is an old blocksize increase proposal that was recently amended by Jeff Garzik to make it more compatible with BU style signalling I think. It seems to have disappeared from github gist entirely, so I'd be interested if someone could find it.
If I remember correctly, it allows the blocksize to increase or decrease by a certain percentage every difficulty adjustment period.


Title: Re: So what is this proposal BIP100?
Post by: Sundark on April 21, 2017, 07:55:56 PM
BIP 100 is an old blocksize increase proposal that was recently amended by Jeff Garzik to make it more compatible with BU style signalling I think. It seems to have disappeared from github gist entirely, so I'd be interested if someone could find it.
If I remember correctly, it allows the blocksize to increase or decrease by a certain percentage every difficulty adjustment period.
BIP100 is about: "Replacing the static 1M block size hard limit with a hard limit set by coinbase vote, conducted on the same schedule as difficulty retargeting."

https://github.com/jgarzik/bip100/blob/master/bip-0100.mediawiki (https://github.com/jgarzik/bip100/blob/master/bip-0100.mediawiki)

I noticed that Bitcoin.com and some miners from ViaBTC started signalling BIP100 today.
Someone can tell me why this old scaling solution is gaining so much attention now?


Title: Re: So what is this proposal BIP100?
Post by: AngryDwarf on April 21, 2017, 08:00:48 PM
https://github.com/jgarzik/bip100/blob/master/bip-0100.mediawiki (https://github.com/jgarzik/bip100/blob/master/bip-0100.mediawiki)

That's it. Thanks for finding it.

Seems to have disappeared from this list:  ???

https://github.com/bitcoin/bips


Title: Re: So what is this proposal BIP100?
Post by: BitcoinPanther on April 21, 2017, 08:01:46 PM
BIP 100 is an old blocksize increase proposal that was recently amended by Jeff Garzik to make it more compatible with BU style signalling I think. It seems to have disappeared from github gist entirely, so I'd be interested if someone could find it.
If I remember correctly, it allows the blocksize to increase or decrease by a certain percentage every difficulty adjustment period.

I read it can only increase by 100% or decrease by 50 % (doubled or half) during the time it needs to modify the block . I do not know if the current features is being modified to support BU. But I believe Segwit supporters will reject this kind of proposal because it will remove a lot of power from the developer and put it on miners which I think is not good to Bitcoin as a whole. What I worries is the need of Hardfork once implemented.  If this thing gets popular  we are back to the Hardfork Issue again.



Title: Re: So what is this proposal BIP100?
Post by: AngryDwarf on April 21, 2017, 08:19:14 PM
Update to BIP100 by Jeff Garzik and Tom Harding discussed here:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1822824.0