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From: Tom Harding <tomh@thinlink.com>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] [BIP Proposal] Version bits with timeout and delay.
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 16:41:51 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <560C733F.3080608@thinlink.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8737xwhdac.fsf@rustcorp.com.au>

On 9/29/2015 7:05 PM, Rusty Russell wrote:
> Tom Harding via bitcoin-dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
> writes:
>> With a simple delay, you can have the embarrassing situation where
>> support falls off during the delay period and there is far below
>> threshold support just moments prior to enforcement, but enforcement
>> happens anyway.
> Yeah, but Gavin's right.  If you can't account for all the corner cases,
> all you can do is keep it simple and well defined.
>

At least you changed the BIP to make it possible to see a fall off in 
support, even though nothing is done about it.



      reply	other threads:[~2015-09-30 23:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-13 18:56 [bitcoin-dev] [BIP Proposal] Version bits with timeout and delay Rusty Russell
2015-09-16 15:53 ` Btc Drak
2015-09-16 17:53 ` Tier Nolan
2015-09-16 20:19   ` Rusty Russell
2015-09-16 20:27     ` Jorge Timón
2015-09-16 20:32       ` Tier Nolan
2015-09-16 20:38         ` Jorge Timón
2015-09-16 20:48           ` Tier Nolan
2015-09-16 20:54             ` Jorge Timón
2015-09-16 20:57               ` Tier Nolan
2015-09-16 21:03                 ` Jorge Timón
2015-09-16 22:52                   ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-09-17 10:38                     ` Tier Nolan
2015-09-17 13:59                       ` Jorge Timón
2015-09-17 21:57                       ` Rusty Russell
2015-09-17 22:00           ` Rusty Russell
2015-09-19  5:04             ` Jorge Timón
2015-09-20  3:56               ` Rusty Russell
2015-09-21  8:24                 ` Jorge Timón
2015-09-21 10:34                   ` Rusty Russell
2015-09-16 20:30     ` Tier Nolan
2015-09-18  1:19       ` Rusty Russell
2015-09-23 18:33 ` Tom Harding
2015-09-23 19:01   ` Gavin Andresen
2015-09-30  2:05   ` Rusty Russell
2015-09-30 23:41     ` Tom Harding [this message]

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