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From: Luke Dashjr <luke@dashjr.org>
To: Peter Todd <pete@petertodd.org>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP Final status
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2016 22:57:34 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201602082257.36009.luke@dashjr.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160208224100.GA25684@savin.petertodd.org>

On Monday, February 08, 2016 10:41:00 PM Peter Todd wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 10:17:55PM +0000, Luke Dashjr via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> > Additionally, https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/315 proposes to
> > upgrade five additional from Draft to Final status, and preferably needs
> > ACKs from the champions of the BIPs:
> > 
> > BIP 50: March 2013 Chain Fork Post-Mortem, by Gavin Andresen
> 
> It may be good to update BIP 50 with the new information that calling it
> a "hard fork" misses subtleties about what happened during that fork. In
> particular, 0.7 rejection of the chain was non-deterministic, based on
> having seen a re-org in a specific way.

I agree BIP 50 could use some rephrasing, but the May 2013 change was 
definitely a hardfork, despite the problems with the pre-March protocol.

Luke


      reply	other threads:[~2016-02-08 22:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-08 22:17 [bitcoin-dev] BIP Final status Luke Dashjr
2016-02-08 22:41 ` Peter Todd
2016-02-08 22:57   ` Luke Dashjr [this message]

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