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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Tier Nolan <tier.nolan@gmail.com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] [BIP Proposal] Version bits with timeout and delay.
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2015 10:49:05 +0930	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878u84ikxi.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAE-z3OW6BKHfx=wS9AYqb4+Ems6xM+SDqBKgGbNkXfPwuPqn8A@mail.gmail.com>

Tier Nolan via bitcoin-dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> writes:
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 9:19 PM, Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
> wrote:
>> You need a timeout: an ancient (non-mining, thus undetectable) node
>> should never fork itself off the network because someone reused a failed
>> BIP bit.
>>
>
> I meant if the 2nd bit was part of the BIP.  One of the 2 bits is "FOR" and
> the other is "AGAINST".  If against hits 25%, then it is deemed a failure.
>
> The 2nd bit wouldn't be used normally.  This means that proposals can be
> killed quickly if they are obviously going to fail.

This could be added if we approach one failed soft fork every 5 weeks,
I guess (or it could be just for specific soft forks).

Cheers,
Rusty.


  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-18 23:24 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 [this message]
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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