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.
next prev parent 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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