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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: "Jorge Timón" <jtimon@jtimon.cc>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] [BIP Proposal] Version bits with timeout and delay.
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2015 20:04:06 +0930	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877fnkysbl.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABm2gDoG19zz80jiwkzGQTpqw-gM06a_0FV2kS=u__DpUxCYhQ@mail.gmail.com>

Jorge Timón <jtimon@jtimon.cc> writes:
> On Sep 20, 2015 10:58 PM, "Rusty Russell" <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> wrote:
>>
>> Jorge Timón <jtimon@jtimon.cc> writes:
>> > I disagree with the importance of this concern and old soft/hardforks
> will
>> > replace this activation mechanism with height, so that's an argument in
>> > favor of using the height from the start. This is "being discussed" in a
>> > thread branched from bip99's discussion.
>>
>> Thanks, I'll have to dig through bitcoin-dev and find it.
>
> The initial thread is linked to from the BIP document (which is in the
> bitcoin/bips PR).

Thanks, read and digested.

The good news is that timeout via GetMedianTimePast() doesn't have any
effect on "should I accept this to mempool", and seems pretty
uncontroversial.   Activation is by block number once vote hits 95%, so
that too is fairly simple to implement.

Cheers,
Rusty.


  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-21 10:35 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 [this message]
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

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