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From: Peter Todd <pete@petertodd.org>
To: Gavin Andresen <gavinandresen@gmail.com>,
	Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP proposal: Increase block size limit to 2 megabytes
Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2016 16:24:19 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160206212419.GA23969@muck> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160206211158.GA14053@muck>

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On Sat, Feb 06, 2016 at 04:11:58PM -0500, Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 06, 2016 at 12:45:14PM -0500, Gavin Andresen via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 6, 2016 at 12:01 PM, Adam Back <adam@cypherspace.org> wrote:
> > 
> > >
> > > It would probably be a good idea to have a security considerations
> > > section
> > 
> > 
> > Containing what?  I'm not aware of any security considerations that are any
> > different from any other consensus rules change.
> 
> I covered the security considerations unique to hard-forks on my blog:
> 
> https://petertodd.org/2016/soft-forks-are-safer-than-hard-forks

Oh, and to be 100% clear, I should say those are only *some of* the
unique security considerations - for starters the article is mainly
talking about uncontroversial hard-forks, and doesn't even delve into
economic attacks among other omissions. It's just an introductory
article.

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-06 21:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-05 20:51 [bitcoin-dev] BIP proposal: Increase block size limit to 2 megabytes Gavin Andresen
2016-02-05 22:36 ` Yifu Guo
2016-02-07 17:09   ` Gavin Andresen
2016-02-05 23:04 ` Btc Drak
2016-02-06  0:12 ` Luke Dashjr
2016-02-06  3:14   ` Jorge Timón
2016-02-06 15:37     ` Gavin Andresen
2016-02-06 17:01       ` Adam Back
2016-02-06 17:45         ` Gavin Andresen
2016-02-06 21:11           ` Peter Todd
2016-02-06 21:24             ` Peter Todd [this message]
2016-02-09  5:11             ` Samson Mow
2016-02-06 21:28           ` David Thomson
2016-02-07 18:49         ` Chris Priest
2016-02-06 17:09       ` Jorge Timón
2016-02-06 17:25         ` Tom Zander
2016-02-06 20:22           ` Chris Priest
2016-02-06 20:46           ` Luke Dashjr
2016-02-07 14:16             ` Gavin Andresen
2016-02-07 15:06               ` Alex Morcos
2016-02-07 16:54                 ` Peter Todd
2016-02-07 15:19               ` Anthony Towns
2016-02-07 17:10                 ` Jonathan Toomim
2016-02-07 17:24                   ` jl2012
2016-02-07 17:56                     ` Jonathan Toomim
2016-02-07 21:01               ` Luke Dashjr
2016-02-07 21:33                 ` Steven Pine
2016-02-07 22:04                   ` Corey Haddad
2016-02-07 22:25                     ` Steven Pine
2016-02-06 20:36       ` Luke Dashjr
2016-02-06 22:22       ` Peter Todd
2016-02-07  5:21       ` Jannes Faber
2016-02-07 18:55         ` Jonathan Toomim
2016-02-07 19:03           ` Patrick Strateman
2016-02-07 19:19             ` Trevin Hofmann
2016-02-07 20:29             ` Tier Nolan
2016-02-09 13:59       ` Yifu Guo
2016-02-09 16:54         ` Gavin Andresen
2016-02-10  6:14           ` David Vorick
2016-02-10  6:36             ` Patrick Shirkey
2016-02-10 12:58             ` Tier Nolan
2016-02-07 11:37 ` Anthony Towns

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