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From: Luke Dashjr <luke@dashjr.org>
To: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org
Subject: [bitcoin-dev] BIP148 temporary service bit (1 << 27)
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2017 19:26:22 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201706191926.25006.luke@dashjr.org> (raw)

To ease the transition to BIP148 and to minimise risks in the event miners 
choose to perform a chain split attack, at least Bitcoin Knots will be using 
the temporary service bit (1 << 27) to indicate BIP148 support.

Once the transition is complete, this will no longer be necessary, and the bit 
will be (manually) returned for reuse.

I encourage other software implementing BIP148 (both full and light nodes) to 
set and use this service bit to avoid network partitioning risks.

Luke


             reply	other threads:[~2017-06-19 19:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-06-19 19:26 Luke Dashjr [this message]
2017-06-19 19:46 ` [bitcoin-dev] BIP148 temporary service bit (1 << 27) Tom Zander
2017-06-19 20:24   ` Mark Friedenbach

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