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From: Matt Corallo <lf-lists@mattcorallo.com>
To: Tom Zander <tomz@freedommail.ch>,
	Bitcoin Protocol Discussion
	<bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] On the security of soft forks
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2016 17:04:59 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5803B33B.2090809@mattcorallo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1476639436.uo9cdjJaci@strawberry>

I highly recommend you read the excellent thread on soft fork risks at
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2015-December/012014.html
and respond there instead of getting off topic for this thread.

Matt

On 10/16/16 16:42, Tom Zander via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> On Sunday, 16 October 2016 12:35:58 CEST Gavin Andresen wrote:
>> On Sun, Oct 16, 2016 at 10:58 AM, Tom Zander via bitcoin-dev <
>>
>> bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>>> The fallow period sounds waaaay to short. I suggest 2 months at minimum
>>> since anyone that wants to be safe needs to upgrade.
>>
>> I asked a lot of businesses and individuals how long it would take them to
>> upgrade to a new release over the last year or two.
>>
>> Nobody said it would take them more than two weeks.
> 
> The question you asked them was likely about the block size. The main 
> difference is that SPV users do not need to update after BIP109, but they do 
> need to have a new wallet when SegWit transactions are being sent to them.
> 
> This upgrade affects also end users, not just businesses etc.
> 
> Personally, I'd say that 2 months is even too fast.
>  
> 


  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-10-16 17:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-16 14:31 [bitcoin-dev] Start time for BIP141 (segwit) Pieter Wuille
2016-10-16 14:58 ` Tom Zander
2016-10-16 16:35   ` Gavin Andresen
2016-10-16 16:42     ` Tom Zander
2016-10-16 16:57       ` Johnson Lau
2016-10-16 17:04       ` Matt Corallo [this message]
2016-10-16 16:42     ` Eric Voskuil
2016-10-16 16:47     ` Douglas Roark
2016-10-16 18:20       ` Tom Zander
2016-10-16 18:41         ` Jorge Timón
2016-10-16 18:54           ` Tom Zander
2016-10-16 19:11             ` Johnson Lau
2016-10-16 20:08               ` Tom Zander
2016-10-17  3:46                 ` Johnson Lau
2016-10-16 19:35         ` [bitcoin-dev] (no subject) Matt Corallo
2016-10-16 20:45           ` Tom Zander
2016-10-17 13:13             ` Btc Drak
2016-10-16 19:49         ` [bitcoin-dev] Start time for BIP141 (segwit) Douglas Roark
2016-10-16 20:58           ` Tom Zander
2016-10-16 21:03             ` gb
2016-10-16 21:08             ` Marek Palatinus
2016-10-16 21:19             ` Andrew C
2016-10-17 11:17               ` Tom Zander
2016-10-17 13:09                 ` Peter Todd
2016-10-17 13:19                 ` Andrew C
2016-10-17 13:27                   ` Btc Drak
2016-10-17 13:31                 ` Jorge Timón
2016-10-16 20:14         ` Btc Drak
2016-10-16 16:08 ` Chris Belcher
2016-10-16 17:52 ` Matt Corallo
2016-10-16 21:49 ` Peter Todd

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