From: Tom Zander <tomz@freedommail.ch>
To: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] A Small Modification to Segwit
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2017 09:59:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2151650.Y6dYBXdtR5@strawberry> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJR7vkpRhNsQsem-nFkeubX04xx1y7aHwCENfg0d1266oOsXMw@mail.gmail.com>
The version field is still needed to actually allow future block version
upgrades. We would cut off our road forward if that were to be blocked.
On Friday, 7 April 2017 22:06:39 CEST Jimmy Song via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> Currently, the version bits (currently 4 bytes, or 32 bits) in the header
> are used for BIP9 signaling. We change the version bits to a nonce-space
> so the miners can use it for overt ASICBoost. The 32-bits are now moved
> over to the Coinbase transaction as part of the witness commitment. The
> witness commitment goes from 38 bytes to 42 bytes, with the last 4 bytes
> being used as the version bits in the block header previously. The
> witness commitment becomes required as per Gregory Maxwell’s proposal.
> Reasoning
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-04-11 7:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-07 20:06 [bitcoin-dev] A Small Modification to Segwit Jimmy Song
2017-04-08 0:05 ` Jimmy Song
2017-04-08 14:59 ` Luke Dashjr
2017-04-08 15:17 ` Jimmy Song
2017-04-08 16:05 ` Luke Dashjr
2017-04-08 16:16 ` Jimmy Song
2017-04-08 16:19 ` Timo Hanke
2017-04-08 1:48 ` praxeology_guy
2017-04-08 2:46 ` Jimmy Song
2017-04-08 8:33 ` Pavel Moravec
2017-04-08 14:35 ` Jimmy Song
2017-04-08 16:38 ` Pavel Moravec
2017-04-08 22:19 ` Jimmy Song
2017-04-08 18:15 ` praxeology_guy
2017-04-08 18:51 ` Eric Voskuil
2017-04-08 20:38 ` praxeology_guy
2017-04-09 11:46 ` Jorge Timón
2017-04-08 16:27 ` Jorge Timón
2017-04-08 17:22 ` Jorge Timón
2017-04-08 22:26 ` Jimmy Song
2017-04-09 11:48 ` Jorge Timón
2017-04-09 14:01 ` Jimmy Song
[not found] ` <CABm2gDqfsBREj2x5Uz9hxwt-Y6m=KHd2-hRw4gV0CbO+-8B0dg@mail.gmail.com>
2017-04-10 9:16 ` Jorge Timón
2017-04-09 18:44 ` Erik Aronesty
2017-04-09 21:16 ` Jared Lee Richardson
2017-04-09 23:51 ` David Vorick
2017-04-10 0:20 ` Erik Aronesty
2017-04-10 1:45 ` Thomas Daede
2017-04-10 14:34 ` Bram Cohen
2017-04-10 14:46 ` Bram Cohen
2017-04-10 15:25 ` g
2017-04-10 18:17 ` Erik Aronesty
2017-04-11 2:39 ` g
2017-04-11 18:39 ` Staf Verhaegen
2017-04-11 9:31 ` Sancho Panza
2017-04-11 13:00 ` Jorge Timón
2017-04-11 7:59 ` Tom Zander [this message]
2017-04-11 13:25 ` Sancho Panza
2017-04-11 14:40 ` Jimmy Song
2017-04-11 21:25 ` Jorge Timón
2017-04-11 23:42 ` Jimmy Song
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