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From: Sergio Lerner <sergiolerner@certimix.com>
To: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Version bits proposal
Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 19:52:18 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55664AA2.7020206@certimix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAE-z3OVskd1JAE5g-WW2eDiPcxysYhbv-NsOYu7yKZvzu88VSg@mail.gmail.com>

I like the idea but I think we should leave at least 16 bits of the
version fixed as an extra-nonce.
If we don't then miners may use them as a nonce anyway, and mess with
the soft-fork voting system.
My original proposal was this: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/5102

Best regards




  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-27 23:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-27  1:48 [Bitcoin-development] Version bits proposal Pieter Wuille
2015-05-27  2:31 ` Douglas Roark
2015-05-27  3:46 ` Luke Dashjr
2015-05-27  3:51   ` Jorge Timón
2015-05-27  9:35     ` Tier Nolan
2015-05-27 10:15       ` Peter Todd
2015-05-27 11:26         ` Tier Nolan
2015-05-27 22:52           ` Sergio Lerner [this message]
2015-05-28  1:05             ` Patrick Strateman
2015-05-28  7:51               ` Christian Decker
2015-05-28  8:11                 ` Adam Back
2015-06-01 14:50           ` Potter QQ
2015-05-27 10:15       ` Jorge Timón
2015-06-03 20:42 ` Pieter Wuille

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