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From: "David A. Harding" <dave@dtrt.org>
To: Matt Corallo <lf-lists@mattcorallo.com>
Cc: Bitcoin Protocol Discussion <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Taproot activation proposal "Speedy Trial"
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2021 10:23:50 -1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210306202350.qdcpvxgedn6qhuxa@ganymede> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2a6955d6-d242-89f5-d622-82889d499cc0@mattcorallo.com>

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On Sat, Mar 06, 2021 at 01:11:01PM -0500, Matt Corallo wrote:
> I'm really unsure that three months is a short enough time window that there
> wouldn't be a material effort to split the network with divergent consensus
> rules. 

I oppose designing activation mechanisms with the goal of preventing
other people from effectively exercising self determination over what
consensus rules their nodes enforce.

Three months was chosen because it's long enough to give miners a
reasonable enough amount of time to activate taproot but it's also short
enough that it doesn't delay any of the existing proposals with roughly
one-year timelines.  As such, I think it has the potential to gain
acceptance from multiple current factions (even if it doesn't ever gain
their full approval), allowing us to move forward with rough social
consensus and to gain useful information from the attempt that can
inform future decisions.

-Dave

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-03-06 20:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-06  3:43 [bitcoin-dev] Taproot activation proposal "Speedy Trial" David A. Harding
2021-03-06  4:44 ` Jeremy
2021-03-06  6:04 ` Andrew Chow
2021-03-06 14:44   ` Russell O'Connor
2021-03-15  2:51   ` Luke Dashjr
2021-03-15  3:14     ` Andrew Chow
2021-03-06  9:29 ` Anthony Towns
2021-03-06 10:26   ` Eric Voskuil
2021-03-06 18:11 ` Matt Corallo
2021-03-06 20:23   ` David A. Harding [this message]
2021-03-06 21:48     ` Matt Corallo
2021-03-06 20:44   ` Ariel Luaces
2021-03-06 20:55     ` Keagan McClelland
2021-03-06 19:56 Michael Folkson
2021-03-06 21:55 ` Matt Corallo
2021-03-15 14:06 Michael Folkson

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