The Miner’s Advantage With Uncapped Block Size
/u/dpinna submitted a technical paper on the Bitcoin Subreddit to the dev-list which outlines the advantages gained by increasing block sizes. It is well known that block size has been a matter of debate for quite a while, and Bitcoin users on both sides of the argument are very passionate. /u/dpinna’s paper outlines how miner advantages actually scale up with network and mempool properties in the scenario of uncapped block sizes. Taking inspiration from uPeter__R ‘s work, /u/dpinna further explains (through evidence and mathematical models) how miners receive more benefit from scaling....
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