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From: Luke Dashjr <luke@dashjr.org>
To: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org, Tomas <tomas@tomasvdw.nl>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] [BIP Draft] Decentralized Improvement Proposals
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2015 17:10:25 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201512301710.27154.luke@dashjr.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1451493317.3215816.479282618.4F666D71@webmail.messagingengine.com>

On Wednesday, December 30, 2015 4:35:17 PM Tomas via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> In an attempt to reduce developer centralization, and to reduce the risk
> of forks introduced by implementation other than bitcoin-core, I have
> drafted a BIP to support changes to the protocol from different
> implementations.

The premises in Motivation are false. BIPs are required to have a reference 
implementation, but that implementation need not necessarily be for Bitcoin 
Core specifically.

The specification itself looks like an inefficient and bloaty reinvention of 
version bits.

Luke


  reply	other threads:[~2015-12-30 17:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-30 16:35 [bitcoin-dev] [BIP Draft] Decentralized Improvement Proposals Tomas
2015-12-30 17:10 ` Luke Dashjr [this message]
2015-12-30 18:22   ` Tomas
2015-12-30 23:47     ` Luke Dashjr
2016-01-03 23:31       ` Rusty Russell

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