[hashcash] Re: getting rid of stamp value variance (Re: Re: Hashcashvs. Time?)

Adam Back wrote:

> btw In thinking about v2 stamp formats, it occurred to me that if you
> include the stamp length in the stamp, you will not get larger than
> expected stamps ever.
> 
> (Where the modified definition of value is 0 if stamp-bits less than
> measured bits, and equal to stamp-bts otherwise, where stamp-bits is
> the number of bits defined in the stamp).
> 
> Eg.
> 
> 0:20:040426:adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:123ab234fddee7
> 
> (Anonomasia first proposed putting the stamp value in the stamp)
> 
> Of course this has no impact on the time-variance.

this confuses me a little bit.  It sounds like at first that you are 
saying if you include the stamp length in a stamp, when sending stamps 
and then you'll never receive a stamp of greater length?  but then you 
say stuff that sounds like you're talking about letting self define the 
value of a stamp.

could you please help me with my confusion?  It's Monday morning.

by the way, it looks like camram in a sendmail milter may be happening 
today if all goes well.  pseudo blog with ugly details coming soon.  ;-)

---eric

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