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+From: Jeremy Rubin <jeremy.l.rubin@gmail.com>
+Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2022 13:57:28 -0700
+Message-ID: <CAD5xwhgGgq30C7GniNh1_DobPe+P4NTJySUkDiBZBj=OjzO5KA@mail.gmail.com>
+To: Peter Todd <pete@petertodd.org>
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+Cc: Bitcoin Protocol Discussion <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>,
+ lightning-dev <lightning-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>,
+ Jeremy <jlrubin@mit.edu>
+Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] [Pre-BIP] Fee Accounts
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+
+the 'lots of people' stuff (get confused, can't figure out what i'm
+quoting, actually are reading this conversation) is an appeal to an
+authority that doesn't exist. If something is unclear to you, let me know.
+If it's unclear to a supposed existential person or set of persons, they
+can let me know.
+
+
+concretely, I am confused by how OTS can both support RBF for updating to
+larger commitments (the reason you're arguing with me) and not have an
+epoch based re-comittings scheme and still be correct. My assumption now,
+short of a coherent spec that's not just 'read the code', is that OTS
+probably is not formally correct and has some holes in what is
+committed to, or relies on clients re-requesting proofs if they fail to be
+committed. in any case, you would be greatly aided by having an actual spec
+for OTS since i'm not interested in the specifics of OTS software, but I'm
+willing to look at the protocol. So if you do that, maybe we can talk more
+about the issue you see with how sponsors works.
+
+further, I think that if there is something that sponsors does that could
+make a hypothetical OTS-like service work better, in a way that would be
+opaque (read: soft-fork like wrt compatibility) to clients, then we should
+just change what OTS is rather than committing ourselves to a worse design
+in service of some unstated design goals. In particular, it seems that
+OTS's servers can be linearized and because old clients aren't looking for
+linearization, then the new linearization won't be a breaking change for
+old clients, just calendar servers. And new clients can benefit from
+linearization.
+--
+@JeremyRubin <https://twitter.com/JeremyRubin>
+
+
+On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 7:52 AM Peter Todd <pete@petertodd.org> wrote:
+
+> On Mon, Apr 11, 2022 at 09:18:10AM -0400, Jeremy Rubin wrote:
+> > > nonsense marketing
+> >
+> > I'm sure the people who are confused about "blockchain schemes as \"world
+> > computers\" and other nonsense
+> > marketing" are avid and regular readers of the bitcoin devs mailing list
+> so
+> > I offer my sincerest apologies to all members of the intersection of
+> those
+> > sets who were confused by the description given.
+>
+> Of course, uninformed people _do_ read all kinds of technical materials.
+> And
+> more importantly, those technical materials get quoted by journalists,
+> scammers, etc.
+>
+> > > useless work
+> >
+> > progress is not useless work, it *is* useful work in this context. you
+> have
+> > committed to some subset of data that you requested -- if it was
+> 'useless',
+> > why did you *ever* bother to commit it in the first place? However, it is
+> > not 'maximally useful' in some sense. However, progress is progress --
+> > suppose you only confirmed 50% of the commitments, is that not progress?
+> If
+> > you just happened to observe 50% of the commitments commit because of
+> > proximity to the time a block was mined and tx propagation naturally
+> would
+> > you call it useless?
+>
+> Please don't trim quoted text to the point where all context is lost. Lots
+> of
+> people read this mailing list and doing that isn't helpful to them.
+>
+> > > Remember that OTS simply proves data in the past. Nothing more.
+> > > OTS doesn't have a chain of transactions
+> > Gotcha -- I've not been able to find an actual spec of Open Time Stamps
+>
+> The technical spec of OpenTimestamps is of course the normative validation
+> source code, currently python-opentimestamps, similar to how the technical
+> spec
+> of Bitcoin is the consensus parts of the Bitcoin Core codebase. The
+> explanatory
+> docs are linked on https://opentimestamps.org under the "How It Works"
+> section.
+> It'd be good to take the linked post in that section and turn it into
+> better
+> explanatory materials with graphics (esp interactive/animated graphics).
+>
+> > anywhere, so I suppose I just assumed based on how I think it *should*
+> > work. Having a chain of transactions would serve to linearize history of
+> > OTS commitments which would let you prove, given reorgs, that knowledge
+> of
+> > commit A was before B a bit more robustly.
+>
+> I'll reply to this as a separate email as this discussion - while useful -
+> is
+> getting quite off topic for this thread.
+>
+> > > I'd rather do one transaction with all pending commitments at a
+> > particular time
+> > rather than waste money on mining two transactions for a given set of
+> > commitments
+> >
+> > This sounds like a personal preference v.s. a technical requirement.
+> >
+> > You aren't doing any extra transactions in the model i showed, what
+> you're
+> > doing is selecting the window for the next based on the prior conf.
+>
+> ...the model you showed is wrong, as there is no reason to have a
+> linearized
+> transaction history. OpenTimestamps proofs don't even have the concept of
+> transactions: the proof format proves that data existed prior to a merkle
+> root
+> of a particular Bitcoin block. Not a Bitcoin transaction.
+>
+> > See the diagram below, you would have to (if OTS is correct) support this
+> > sort of 'attempt/confirm' head that tracks attempted commitments and
+> > confirmed ones and 'rewinds' after a confirm to make the next commit
+> > contain the prior attempts that didn't make it.
+> >
+> >
+> [.........................................................................]
+> > ------^ confirm head tx 0 at height 34
+> > ------------------------^ attempt head after tx 0
+> > -----------^ confirm head tx 1 at height 35
+> > --------------------------^ attempt head after tx 1
+> > ------------^ confirm head tx 2 at height 36
+> > -------------------------------^
+> > attempt head after tx 2
+> > -------------------------------^
+> > confirm head tx 3 at height 37
+> >
+> > you can compare this to a "spherical cow" model where RBF is always
+> perfect
+> > and guaranteed inclusion:
+> >
+> >
+> >
+> [.........................................................................]
+> > ------^ confirm head tx 0 at height 34
+> > -------------------------^ confirm head tx 1 at height 35
+> > -----------^ confirm head at tx 1
+> > height 36
+> > -----------------^
+> > confirm head tx 3 at height 37
+> >
+> > The same number of transactions gets used over the time period.
+>
+> None of the above has anything to do with how OpenTimestamps works.
+>
+> Anyway, getting back to the topic at hand, I remain of the opinion that in
+> the
+> unlikely event that fee accounts is ever implemented, it should be opt-in.
+>
+> --
+> https://petertodd.org 'peter'[:-1]@petertodd.org
+>
+
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+
+<div dir=3D"ltr"><div class=3D"gmail_default" style=3D"font-family:arial,he=
+lvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">the &#39;lots of people&#=
+39; stuff (get confused, can&#39;t figure out what i&#39;m quoting, actuall=
+y are reading this conversation) is an appeal to an authority that doesn&#3=
+9;t exist. If something is unclear to you, let me know. If it&#39;s unclear=
+ to a supposed existential person or set of persons, they can let me know.<=
+/div><div class=3D"gmail_default" style=3D"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans=
+-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class=3D"gmail_default=
+" style=3D"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#00=
+0000"><br></div><div class=3D"gmail_default" style=3D"font-family:arial,hel=
+vetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">concretely, I am confused =
+by how OTS=C2=A0can both support RBF for updating to larger commitments=C2=
+=A0(the reason you&#39;re arguing with me) and not have an epoch based re-c=
+omittings scheme and still be correct. My assumption now, short of a cohere=
+nt spec that&#39;s not just &#39;read the code&#39;, is that OTS probably i=
+s not formally correct and has some holes in what is committed=C2=A0to, or =
+relies on clients re-requesting proofs if they fail to be committed. in any=
+ case, you would be greatly aided by having an actual spec for OTS since i&=
+#39;m not interested in the specifics of OTS software, but I&#39;m willing =
+to look at the protocol. So if you do that, maybe we can talk more about th=
+e issue you see with how sponsors works.</div><div class=3D"gmail_default" =
+style=3D"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0000=
+00"><br></div><div class=3D"gmail_default" style=3D"font-family:arial,helve=
+tica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">further, I think that if the=
+re is something that sponsors does that could make a hypothetical OTS-like =
+service work better, in a way that would be opaque (read: soft-fork like wr=
+t compatibility) to clients, then we should just change what OTS is rather =
+than committing ourselves to a worse design in service of some unstated des=
+ign goals. In particular, it seems that OTS&#39;s=C2=A0servers can be linea=
+rized and because old clients aren&#39;t looking for linearization, then th=
+e new linearization won&#39;t be a breaking change for old clients, just ca=
+lendar servers. And new clients can benefit from linearization.</div><div><=
+div dir=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail_signature" data-smartmail=3D"gmail_signature=
+"><div dir=3D"ltr">--<br><a href=3D"https://twitter.com/JeremyRubin" target=
+=3D"_blank">@JeremyRubin</a><br></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class=
+=3D"gmail_quote"><div dir=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail_attr">On Fri, Apr 15, 2022=
+ at 7:52 AM Peter Todd &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:pete@petertodd.org">pete@peter=
+todd.org</a>&gt; wrote:<br></div><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D=
+"margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;bor=
+der-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Mon, Apr 11, 2022 at 0=
+9:18:10AM -0400, Jeremy Rubin wrote:<br>
+&gt; &gt; nonsense marketing<br>
+&gt; <br>
+&gt; I&#39;m sure the people who are confused about &quot;blockchain scheme=
+s as \&quot;world<br>
+&gt; computers\&quot; and other nonsense<br>
+&gt; marketing&quot; are avid and regular readers of the bitcoin devs maili=
+ng list so<br>
+&gt; I offer my sincerest apologies to all members of the intersection of t=
+hose<br>
+&gt; sets who were confused by the description given.<br>
+<br>
+Of course, uninformed people _do_ read all kinds of technical materials. An=
+d<br>
+more importantly, those technical materials get quoted by journalists,<br>
+scammers, etc.<br>
+<br>
+&gt; &gt; useless work<br>
+&gt; <br>
+&gt; progress is not useless work, it *is* useful work in this context. you=
+ have<br>
+&gt; committed to some subset of data that you requested -- if it was &#39;=
+useless&#39;,<br>
+&gt; why did you *ever* bother to commit it in the first place? However, it=
+ is<br>
+&gt; not &#39;maximally useful&#39; in some sense. However, progress is pro=
+gress --<br>
+&gt; suppose you only confirmed 50% of the commitments, is that not progres=
+s? If<br>
+&gt; you just happened to observe 50% of the commitments commit because of<=
+br>
+&gt; proximity to the time a block was mined and tx propagation naturally w=
+ould<br>
+&gt; you call it useless?<br>
+<br>
+Please don&#39;t trim quoted text to the point where all context is lost. L=
+ots of<br>
+people read this mailing list and doing that isn&#39;t helpful to them.<br>
+<br>
+&gt; &gt; Remember that OTS simply proves data in the past. Nothing more.<b=
+r>
+&gt; &gt; OTS doesn&#39;t have a chain of transactions<br>
+&gt; Gotcha -- I&#39;ve not been able to find an actual spec of Open Time S=
+tamps<br>
+<br>
+The technical spec of OpenTimestamps is of course the normative validation<=
+br>
+source code, currently python-opentimestamps, similar to how the technical =
+spec<br>
+of Bitcoin is the consensus parts of the Bitcoin Core codebase. The explana=
+tory<br>
+docs are linked on <a href=3D"https://opentimestamps.org" rel=3D"noreferrer=
+" target=3D"_blank">https://opentimestamps.org</a> under the &quot;How It W=
+orks&quot; section.<br>
+It&#39;d be good to take the linked post in that section and turn it into b=
+etter<br>
+explanatory materials with graphics (esp interactive/animated graphics).<br=
+>
+<br>
+&gt; anywhere, so I suppose I just assumed based on how I think it *should*=
+<br>
+&gt; work. Having a chain of transactions would serve to linearize history =
+of<br>
+&gt; OTS commitments which would let you prove, given reorgs, that knowledg=
+e of<br>
+&gt; commit A was before B a bit more robustly.<br>
+<br>
+I&#39;ll reply to this as a separate email as this discussion - while usefu=
+l - is<br>
+getting quite off topic for this thread.<br>
+<br>
+&gt; &gt;=C2=A0 I&#39;d rather do one transaction with all pending commitme=
+nts at a<br>
+&gt; particular time<br>
+&gt; rather than waste money on mining two transactions for a given set of<=
+br>
+&gt; commitments<br>
+&gt; <br>
+&gt; This sounds like a personal preference v.s. a technical requirement.<b=
+r>
+&gt; <br>
+&gt; You aren&#39;t doing any extra transactions in the model i showed, wha=
+t you&#39;re<br>
+&gt; doing is selecting the window for the next based on the prior conf.<br=
+>
+<br>
+...the model you showed is wrong, as there is no reason to have a linearize=
+d<br>
+transaction history. OpenTimestamps proofs don&#39;t even have the concept =
+of<br>
+transactions: the proof format proves that data existed prior to a merkle r=
+oot<br>
+of a particular Bitcoin block. Not a Bitcoin transaction.<br>
+<br>
+&gt; See the diagram below, you would have to (if OTS is correct) support t=
+his<br>
+&gt; sort of &#39;attempt/confirm&#39; head that tracks attempted commitmen=
+ts and<br>
+&gt; confirmed ones and &#39;rewinds&#39; after a confirm to make the next =
+commit<br>
+&gt; contain the prior attempts that didn&#39;t make it.<br>
+&gt; <br>
+&gt; [.....................................................................=
+....]<br>
+&gt;=C2=A0 ------^ confirm head tx 0 at height 34<br>
+&gt;=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0------------------------^ attempt hea=
+d after tx 0<br>
+&gt;=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 -----------^ confirm head tx 1 at he=
+ight 35<br>
+&gt;=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =
+=C2=A0 =C2=A0--------------------------^ attempt head after tx 1<br>
+&gt;=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =
+=C2=A0 =C2=A0------------^ confirm head tx 2 at height 36<br>
+&gt;=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =
+=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 ------------=
+-------------------^<br>
+&gt; attempt head after tx 2<br>
+&gt;=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =
+=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0------=
+-------------------------^<br>
+&gt; confirm head tx 3 at height 37<br>
+&gt; <br>
+&gt; you can compare this to a &quot;spherical cow&quot; model where RBF is=
+ always perfect<br>
+&gt; and guaranteed inclusion:<br>
+&gt; <br>
+&gt; <br>
+&gt; [.....................................................................=
+....]<br>
+&gt;=C2=A0 ------^ confirm head tx 0 at height 34<br>
+&gt;=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 -------------------------^ confirm head tx =
+1 at height 35<br>
+&gt;=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =
+=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 -----=
+------^ confirm head at tx 1<br>
+&gt; height 36<br>
+&gt;=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =
+=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=
+=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 -----------------^<br>
+&gt; confirm head tx 3 at height 37<br>
+&gt; <br>
+&gt; The same number of transactions gets used over the time period.<br>
+<br>
+None of the above has anything to do with how OpenTimestamps works.<br>
+<br>
+Anyway, getting back to the topic at hand, I remain of the opinion that in =
+the<br>
+unlikely event that fee accounts is ever implemented, it should be opt-in.<=
+br>
+<br>
+-- <br>
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+s://petertodd.org</a> &#39;peter&#39;[:-1]@<a href=3D"http://petertodd.org"=
+ rel=3D"noreferrer" target=3D"_blank">petertodd.org</a><br>
+</blockquote></div>
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