chris-belcher

I understand what you mean now. I think our disagreement is about that negotiation, I don't agree that the negotiation is irrelevant. It's important, if the negotiation doesn't succeed then...

I've read your idea again, I misunderstood it the first time. I thought it was equivalent to miners always contributing zero, but actually it isnt.

With the fee market currently pricing blockchain space at 200 satoshi-per-byte for one confirmation, it's worth drawing attention to this issue again. Incentives in joinmarket for miner fees are all...

I've had some thoughts on the best way to organize the market to deal with miner fees. One day I hope joinmarket will be used by people to save on...

Another reason to do this is to fix this bug https://www.reddit.com/r/joinmarket/comments/5fq6oh/wallettoolpy_history_error/

So if we used a p2p network we might have the issue that makers will be the only long-running peers and they have a strong incentive not to relay other...

First implementation of randomized weighted order choosing. https://github.com/chris-belcher/joinmarket/commit/63372f43332ddd799dadec899e52a75b863b8ad8

Reopening this, another way to contribute to solving this problem is to quantize the prices before choosing. Within each quantum of orders the price is not considered, but the quantas...

A normal bitcoin exchange doing increasing the size of their ticks for the same reason as the quanization idea: https://www.reddit.com/r/BitcoinMarkets/comments/4tmp4c/coinfloor_changes_tick_size_to_1_gbp/

This opens a DOS where lots of makers announce cheap offers and then send invalid UTXOs to nonverifying-takers who can't tell that the UTXOs are fake, and therefore can't ban...