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« on: August 27, 2015, 02:15:28 am »
Yeah I have to say I don't think this is a good idea. For one, I'm beginning to think there won't be enough volume (most definitely at first) to make it worth the overhead that 1 second blocks will produce. While it is quite the technical achievement, remember, this is far more than mastercard or visa can handle combined on any given day...that's a lot of transactions going on. By all means keep the 1 second blocks. It's allowing BTS to develop an incredible niche market for high speed trading. However, with that bloat comes security issues...there are far less people running full nodes as I have expressed many times as a security flaw and that there should be a brainstormed way to incentivize non witness/delegate nodes to run full chains. Even then! I can still accept that because of the light wallet web querying. But this is really pushing the envelope here. I know you're very big on low latency environments (which I think is awesome) however I think this is really compromising security especially in a realm where not everyone is on to vote as it is, and the voting time periods have been extended, so there's even the chance that the attacker wouldn't be kicked out. I truly think that this is a flawed approach to the issue of latency as it is expecting unrealistic expectations from shareholders and from your average participant. I hope you will consider this opinion and choose not to move forward with this and find another way to reach your low latency expectations. I should also add that while it may not be your intention, it does make the witnesses look a tad greedy when it comes to their payment schedule as they're sacrificing what really makes this unique...decentralization...for more pay (I can't really blame them for wanting more pay, but I also have stake in the product, so I must make my voice heard on the issue). Thanks again.