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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Gregory Maxwell <greg@xiph.org>,
	Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP149 timeout-- why so far in the future?
Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 13:56:56 +0930	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r2ze2833.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAS2fgQNPvEuta0KubeDetgYxGhWvdGK10jig0y4ayv0EvZPLw@mail.gmail.com>

Gregory Maxwell via bitcoin-dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
writes:
> Based on how fast we saw segwit adoption, why is the BIP149 timeout so
> far in the future?
>
> It seems to me that it could be six months after release and hit the
> kind of density required to make a stable transition.

Agreed, I would suggest 16th December, 2017 (otherwise, it should be
16th January 2018; during EOY holidays seems a bad idea).

This means this whole debacle has delayed segwit exactly 1 (2) month(s)
beyond what we'd have if it used BIP8 in the first place.

Cheers,
Rusty.


  reply	other threads:[~2017-05-24  5:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-23 17:50 [bitcoin-dev] BIP149 timeout-- why so far in the future? Gregory Maxwell
2017-05-24  4:26 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2017-05-26 20:04   ` Matt Corallo
2017-05-27  1:19     ` Rusty Russell
2017-06-11  5:48       ` Ryan Grant
2017-06-11 13:17         ` Jorge Timón
2017-05-26  7:28 ` shaolinfry
2017-06-11 13:44 Martijn Meijering
2017-06-11 14:29 ` Jorge Timón

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