From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from sog-mx-3.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com ([172.29.43.193] helo=mx.sourceforge.net) by sfs-ml-1.v29.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1UaFLe-0005Gd-3Y for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Thu, 09 May 2013 01:08:42 +0000 X-ACL-Warn: Received: from mail-da0-f47.google.com ([209.85.210.47]) by sog-mx-3.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtps (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) id 1UaFLc-00015R-SR for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Thu, 09 May 2013 01:08:42 +0000 Received: by mail-da0-f47.google.com with SMTP id k13so1283665dae.34 for ; Wed, 08 May 2013 18:08:34 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-received:x-originating-ip:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type:x-gm-message-state; bh=L851E4DM04tSwR/CFyYabxNtQrNGhYkswAUlaaS7htM=; b=PWSiu7GOsbvtanAhRvIvaNobaVk8Vhfdpo4em3adPj45aZ3ySiIuXWX3eHT3P8CMDg EKcnkByEh055wah7+c5Bfgd0h5SncnbnvhbQcihKpTlwdt9D5Kls5TgI6lVYtFcY8y+8 KmcDKpOniJlH/cfP1ELw89vgMMVwT++9yZwyAps0HlFBESgSUwP2+LUnak8CBd6uQOg4 OvuFPtUar5oZUaBjN+MmsvSV2lzYf0N/n/TsODUIElM095yO46vmgKfrG+UfinSQuTyY 3sMJQRSKxtve9AzHPBNLelcu7YINRIqQI+1ffjTHQWrqM4H7AtKzdzieI/McENutwuJV tNQA== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.68.92.100 with SMTP id cl4mr10119147pbb.130.1368061714735; Wed, 08 May 2013 18:08:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.68.240.106 with HTTP; Wed, 8 May 2013 18:08:34 -0700 (PDT) X-Originating-IP: [99.43.178.25] In-Reply-To: References: <20130508234422.GA30870@savin> Date: Wed, 8 May 2013 21:08:34 -0400 Message-ID: From: Jeff Garzik To: John Dillon Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQkIgVC9Y1+WWODF/DIQsnBtk6XNOZnk0hWvGFIDKS3Zjp4cnwznXcD2VhTA3rz/MU+nDZ7a X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-Spam-Report: Spam Filtering performed by mx.sourceforge.net. See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. X-Headers-End: 1UaFLc-00015R-SR Cc: Bitcoin Dev Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] 32 vs 64-bit timestamp fields X-BeenThere: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 May 2013 01:08:42 -0000 On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 9:00 PM, John Dillon wrote: > Perhaps Satoshi did this delibrately, knowing that at some point a hard-fork > would be a good idea, so that we all would have a good excuse to do one? Guffaw :) The year 2038 is so far in the future that it is not really relevant, from that angle. We need a hard fork to break the 1MB limit, and Satoshi explicitly presumed that would happen sometime in the future. -- Jeff Garzik exMULTI, Inc. jgarzik@exmulti.com