Expando Blocks

Bagatell

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This is the guy that first alerted me to Bitcoin in 2012. What do you make of his Expando Blocks idea?

 
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Bagatell

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on or potential
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solution here and I'm not going to do
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the work for this but it's easily
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achieved is that there's them the block
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or the programmers will understand what
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I'm saying here but there's 83 bytes in
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the current existence block structure
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these 83 bytes could easily be used to
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chain a number of other blocks of
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exactly the same structure with exactly
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the same free 80 bytes now at the moment
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people are just shoving crop and crud in
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there I mean there's all kinds of weird
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spam and and people are storing records
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in there and doing all sorts of things
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have you got photos and strange images
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and gifts and this or thing just because
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they can but that space could be
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allocated to chaining blocks and so my
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idea would be instead of a segmented
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witness or altering the block would be
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iterative processing so every time the
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minor software hit a block it would know
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to jump right to the particular point of
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80 bytes free pick up on the ancillary
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blocks process through the primary block
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and then process through any and all
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slave blocks now also bear in mind this
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this means that as long as you're
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keeping the block size the same and the
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structure the same just adding a little
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bit not altering and adding a bit to
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your code then the same processing for
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any of the slave blocks would be the
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processing for the master block you
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would just need to have an iterative
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accumulator or counter and to know where
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you are in the chain and technically it
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would be infinite you know you have
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infinite scalability lat
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rly so to speak off each and every block
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and you'd have to as you're processing
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through the blocks you just have to stop
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on each block and process laterally to
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the end of its chain come back and then
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go to the next one I do this with my
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spiders for gathering beta all the time
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and it works very well you need to know
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where you are in your accumulator and
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you got to watch your stack as you're
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doing this kind of stuff but there
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shouldn't be any problem with today's
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modern hard work so there is a third
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possibility for you and expand the block
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if you will without the block ever
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expanding it replicates itself or
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replicating blocks or cloning blocks or
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whatever you want and then they're all
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chained with smart numbers so that the
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the continuity the block chain is
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maintained the records on each and every
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one of them is maintained you can even
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devote you would have to devote some of
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some of your 80 bites to a checksum to
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give you a you know smart number
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analysis about the number of ancillary
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blocks agenda process but it no big deal
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so there may be technical issues that
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you know for why people wouldn't want to
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implement that but it is another
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solution and those 83 bytes in there
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provide other possible

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