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From: shaolinfry <shaolinfry@protonmail.ch>
To: Luke Dashjr <luke@dashjr.org>
Cc: "bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org"
	<bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Height based vs block time based thresholds
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2017 00:00:38 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <00qcLaDJFDoC9D6644P_aLf7_n5B1pqCPj_c02QlqySsrJLsB6TZipXMD8L7l3lJcw5NoLP6dphCMruKJCIMkJUIDYbIw0iDd322vsNFmNw=@protonmail.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201707050350.53122.luke@dashjr.org>

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Luke,
I previously explored an extra state to require signalling before activation in an earlier draft of BIP8, but the overall impression I got was that gratuitous orphaning was undesirable, so I dropped it. I understand the motivation behind it (to ensure miners are upgraded), but it's also rather pointless when miners can just fake signal. A properly constructed soft fork is generally such that miners have to deliberately do something invalid - they cannot be tricked into it... and miners can always chose to do something invalid anyway.

> -------- Original Message --------
> From: luke@dashjr.org
> To: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org, shaolinfry <shaolinfry@protonmail.ch>
> I"ve already opened a PR almost 2 weeks ago to do this and fix the other
> issues BIP 9 has. https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/550
> It just needs your ACK to merge.
> On Wednesday 05 July 2017 1:30:26 AM shaolinfry via bitcoin-dev wrote:
>> Some people have criticized BIP9"s blocktime based thresholds arguing they
>> are confusing (the first retarget after threshold). It is also vulnerable
>> to miners fiddling with timestamps in a way that could prevent or delay
>> activation - for example by only advancing the block timestamp by 1 second
>> you would never meet the threshold (although this would come a the penalty
>> of hiking the difficulty dramatically). On the other hand, the exact date
>> of a height based thresholds is hard to predict a long time in advance due
>> to difficulty fluctuations. However, there is certainty at a given block
>> height and it"s easy to monitor. If there is sufficient interest, I would
>> be happy to amend BIP8 to be height based. I originally omitted height
>> based thresholds in the interests of simplicity of review - but now that
>> the proposal has been widely reviewed it would be a trivial amendment.

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-07-05  4:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-07-05  1:30 [bitcoin-dev] Height based vs block time based thresholds shaolinfry
2017-07-05  2:25 ` Troy Benjegerdes
2017-07-05  3:39 ` Bram Cohen
2017-07-05  3:50 ` Luke Dashjr
2017-07-05  4:00   ` shaolinfry [this message]
2017-07-05  4:10     ` Luke Dashjr
2017-07-05 19:44       ` Hampus Sjöberg
2017-07-06 17:20         ` Jorge Timón
2017-07-06 17:41           ` Eric Voskuil
2017-07-05  8:06   ` Gregory Maxwell
2017-07-05  8:54     ` Kekcoin
2017-07-06 20:43     ` Luke Dashjr
2017-07-07  5:52 ` shaolinfry
2017-07-07  9:51   ` Jorge Timón

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