From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (smtp1.linux-foundation.org [172.17.192.35]) by mail.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 76432F12 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2018 01:43:42 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from forward2.bravehost.com (forward2.bravehost.com [65.39.211.66]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B71001C0 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2018 01:43:41 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at bravehost.com Received: from [10.137.3.35] (tor-exit1-readme.dfri.se [171.25.193.77]) (Authenticated sender: cannon@cannon-ciota.info) by forward2.bravehost.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7854510F4 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 2018 17:43:36 -0800 (PST) To: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org References: <6d24833d-f127-04ea-d180-c69409de16a5@cannon-ciota.info> From: CANNON Message-ID: <6d92d8da-052d-f997-f441-0713acd72e85@cannon-ciota.info> Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 01:43:22 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.5.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <6d24833d-f127-04ea-d180-c69409de16a5@cannon-ciota.info> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on smtp1.linux-foundation.org X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 03:07:32 +0000 Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] NIST 8202 Blockchain Technology Overview X-BeenThere: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: Bitcoin Protocol Discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 01:43:42 -0000 -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: RE: NIST 8202 Blockchain Technology Overview Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2018 12:25:05 +0000 From: Yaga, Dylan (Fed) To: CANNON Thank you for your comments. You, along with many others, expressed concern on section 8.1.2. To help foster a full transparency approach on the editing of this section, I am sending the revised section to you for further comment. 8.1.2 Bitcoin Cash (BCH) In 2017, Bitcoin users adopted an improvement proposal for Segregated Witness (known as SegWit, where transactions are split into two segments: transactional data, and signature data) through a soft fork. SegWit made it possible to store transactional data in a more compact form while maintaining backwards compatibility. However, a group of users had different opinions on how Bitcoin should evolve – and developed a hard fork of the Bitcoin blockchain titled Bitcoin Cash. Rather than implementing the SegWit changes, the developers of Bitcoin Cash decided to simply increase the blocksize. When the hard fork occurred, people had access to the same amount of coins on Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash.