From: Peter Todd <pete@petertodd.org>
To: Gavin Andresen <gavinandresen@gmail.com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Hardfork bit BIP
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2016 13:19:35 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160204181935.GA28036@muck> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABsx9T2VoWm04i_vQv7u0vXM6hdMBM29bnMSuv8RmMFMGxOdpg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Feb 04, 2016 at 12:36:06PM -0500, Gavin Andresen via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> This BIP is unnecessary, in my opinion.
>
> I'm going to take issue with items (2) and (3) that are the motivation for
> this BIP:
>
> " 2. Full nodes and SPV nodes following original consensus rules may not be
> aware of the deployment of a hardfork. They may stick to an
> economic-minority fork and unknowingly accept devalued legacy tokens."
>
> If a hardfork is deployed by increasing the version number in blocks (as is
> done for soft forks), then there is no risk-- Full and SPV nodes should
> notice that they are seeing up-version blocks and warn the user that they
> are using obsolete software.
1) There is no way to guarantee that nodes will see those blocks, and
the current network behavior works against such guarantees even in the
non-adversarial case.
2) I know of no currently deployed SPV wallet software that warns users
about unknown block versions anyway.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-04 18:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-04 17:14 [bitcoin-dev] Hardfork bit BIP jl2012
2016-02-04 17:36 ` Gavin Andresen
2016-02-04 17:56 ` jl2012
2016-02-04 18:00 ` Bryan Bishop
2016-02-04 18:24 ` Tier Nolan
2016-02-04 18:19 ` Peter Todd [this message]
2016-02-04 18:29 ` Luke Dashjr
2016-02-05 10:20 ` Jorge Timón
2016-02-04 19:36 ` Gregory Maxwell
2016-02-04 22:15 ` Gavin Andresen
2016-02-05 9:58 ` Jorge Timón
2016-02-07 19:27 ` jl2012
2016-02-07 20:20 ` Gavin
2016-02-08 2:44 ` Anthony Towns
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