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From: Mike Hearn <hearn@vinumeris.com>
To: Peter Todd <pete@petertodd.org>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Let's deploy BIP65 CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY!
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2015 15:41:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+w+GKTCZDNVJ-XEmsCAWGXUV3xOzVYmqMQYm0x+ihyYWQN0Gg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150928132127.GA4829@savin.petertodd.org>

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>
> 1) Do you agree that CLTV should be added to the Bitcoin protocol?
>
> Ignoring the question how exactly it is added, hard-fork or soft-fork.
>

The opcode definition seems OK.


> 2) Will you add a IsSuperMajority() CLTV soft-fork to Bitcoin XT if it
>    is added to Bitcoin Core?
>

Yes. It might be worth putting the version bit change behind a command line
flag though: the BIP, as written, has problems (with deployment).


> 3) Will you add soft-fork detection to bitcoinj, to allow SPV clients to

   detect advertised soft-forks and correctly handle them?
>

I'd really hate to do that. It'd be a Rube Goldberg machine:

   https://krypt3ia.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/rube.jpg

There's no really good way to do what you propose, and we already have a
perfectly workable mechanism to tell SPV clients about chain forks: the
block chain itself. This has the advantage of being already implemented,
already deployed, and it works correctly.

Attempting to strap a different mechanism on top to try and make soft forks
more like hard forks would be a large and pointless waste of people's time
and effort, not just mine (bitcoinj is not the only widely used SPV
implementation nowadays). You may as well go straight to the correct
outcome instead of trying to simulate it with ever more complex mechanisms.

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-28 13:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 101+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-27 18:50 [bitcoin-dev] Let's deploy BIP65 CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY! Peter Todd
2015-09-27 20:26 ` jl2012
2015-09-27 20:27   ` Peter Todd
2015-09-27 20:27 ` Mark Friedenbach
2015-09-27 20:41 ` Btc Drak
2015-09-28 10:10 ` s7r
2015-09-28 10:48 ` Mike Hearn
2015-09-28 11:00   ` Adam Back
2015-09-28 11:40     ` Mike Hearn
2015-09-28 12:20       ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-09-28 12:26         ` Mike Hearn
2015-09-28 12:44           ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-09-28 12:54             ` Mike Hearn
2015-09-29  6:17               ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-09-29 12:02                 ` Mike Hearn
2015-09-28 14:05       ` Btc Drak
2015-09-28 14:17         ` Mike Hearn
2015-09-28 21:12     ` odinn
2015-09-28 22:16       ` Dave Scotese
2015-09-28 11:04   ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-09-28 12:47   ` Tier Nolan
2015-09-28 13:01   ` Gavin Andresen
2015-09-28 13:28     ` Peter Todd
2015-09-28 13:43       ` Gavin Andresen
2015-09-28 14:14         ` Peter Todd
2015-09-28 13:21   ` Peter Todd
2015-09-28 13:41     ` Mike Hearn [this message]
2015-09-28 14:29       ` Peter Todd
2015-09-28 14:33         ` Mike Hearn
2015-09-28 14:43           ` Peter Todd
2015-09-28 14:51             ` Mike Hearn
2015-09-28 15:05               ` Peter Todd
2015-09-28 15:38                 ` Mike Hearn
2015-09-28 16:52                   ` jl2012
2015-09-28 17:14                     ` Mike Hearn
2015-09-28 23:17                       ` Jorge Timón
2015-09-29 12:07                         ` Mike Hearn
2015-09-29 15:09                           ` [bitcoin-dev] Why soft-forks? was: " Santino Napolitano
2015-09-29 13:30             ` [bitcoin-dev] " Jonathan Toomim (Toomim Bros)
2015-09-29 15:59               ` jl2012
2015-09-29 19:54                 ` odinn
2015-09-29 18:31   ` Gregory Maxwell
2015-09-30 17:11     ` Mike Hearn
2015-09-30 17:58       ` Jorge Timón
2015-10-01 14:23         ` Tom Harding
2015-09-30 18:15       ` Adam Back
2015-09-30 19:26       ` Jeff Garzik
2015-09-30 19:56         ` Mike Hearn
2015-09-30 20:37           ` Jorge Timón
2015-09-30 21:06             ` Mike Hearn
2015-09-30 22:14               ` Jorge Timón
2015-10-01  0:11                 ` Jorge Timón
2015-09-30 22:17           ` Jeff Garzik
2015-09-30 23:25             ` Gregory Maxwell
2015-09-30 20:15       ` Gregory Maxwell
2015-09-30 21:01         ` Mike Hearn
2015-09-30 22:59           ` Gregory Maxwell
2015-10-01  4:08           ` [bitcoin-dev] Crossing the line? [Was: Re: Let's deploy BIP65 CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY!] Tao Effect
2015-10-01 16:39             ` Jeff Garzik
2015-10-01 20:17               ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-10-02 12:23               ` Mike Hearn
2015-10-02 13:14                 ` jl2012
2015-10-02 14:10                   ` Marcel Jamin
2015-10-02 16:37                 ` Gregory Maxwell
2015-10-07 15:00     ` [bitcoin-dev] Let's deploy BIP65 CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY! Anthony Towns
2015-10-07 15:46       ` Jonathan Toomim (Toomim Bros)
2015-10-07 16:02         ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-10-07 16:25           ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-10-07 16:26           ` Jonathan Toomim (Toomim Bros)
2015-10-07 16:38         ` Anthony Towns
2015-10-10  7:23       ` Anthony Towns
2015-10-12  7:02       ` digitsu
2015-10-12 16:33         ` Anthony Towns
2015-10-12 17:06         ` Anthony Towns
2015-10-13  0:08           ` digitsu
2015-09-29 20:03 ` Wladimir J. van der Laan
2015-09-30  4:05   ` Rusty Russell
2015-09-30  6:19     ` Adam Back
2015-09-30 12:30       ` Mike Hearn
2015-09-30 15:55         ` Jorge Timón
2015-09-30 19:17           ` John Winslow
2015-10-01  0:06             ` Rusty Russell
2015-09-30 17:14         ` Adam Back
2015-10-01  0:04       ` Rusty Russell
2015-10-02  1:57 NotMike Hearn
2015-10-02  2:12 ` GC
2015-10-05 10:59   ` Mike Hearn
2015-10-05 11:23     ` Jeff Garzik
2015-10-05 11:28       ` Mike Hearn
2015-10-05 12:04         ` Jorge Timón
2015-10-05 12:08           ` Clément Elbaz
2015-10-05 12:16             ` Jorge Timón
2015-10-05 12:29               ` Clément Elbaz
2015-10-05 15:42                 ` Jorge Timón
2015-10-05 12:10           ` Mike Hearn
2015-10-05 15:33             ` Jorge Timón
2015-10-05 16:46               ` Mike Hearn
2015-10-06  6:20                 ` Anthony Towns
2015-10-07  6:13                 ` Micha Bailey
2015-10-05 13:29   ` Jorge Timón
2015-10-05 13:24 ` Jorge Timón

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