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diff --git a/bip-0105.mediawiki b/bip-0105.mediawiki index 7aaef04..cbd309d 100644 --- a/bip-0105.mediawiki +++ b/bip-0105.mediawiki @@ -62,10 +62,12 @@ Each time a miner creates a block, they may vote to increase or decrease the blocksize by a maximum of 10% of the current block size limit. These votes will be used to recalculate the new block size limit every 2016 blocks. -Votes are cast using the block's coinbase field. +Votes are cast using the block's coinbase transaction scriptSig. -The first 4 bytes of the coinbase field shall be repurposed for voting as an -unsigned long integer which will be the block size in bytes. +As per BIP34, the coinbase transaction scriptSig starts with a push of the block +height. The next push is a little-endian number representing the preferred block +size in bytes. For example, 0x4c(OP_PUSHDATA1) 0x03(size of constant) 0x80 0x84 0x1e(2MB) +or 0x4c(OP_PUSHDATA1) 0x04(size of constant) 0x80 0x96 0x98 0x00(10MB). If a miner votes for an increase, the block hash must meet a difficulty target which is proportionally larger than the standard difficulty target based on the @@ -95,6 +97,10 @@ This proposal is based on ideas and concepts derived from the writings of Meni Rosenfeld and Gregory Maxwell. +==References== + +[[bip-0034.mediawiki|BIP34]] + ==Copyright== This work is placed in the public domain. |