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From: Bryan Bishop <kanzure@gmail.com>
To: Peter R <peter_r@gmx.com>,
	 Bitcoin Protocol Discussion
	<bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>,
	Bryan Bishop <kanzure@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Defending against empty or near empty blocks from malicious miner takeover?
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2017 15:22:19 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABaSBayb-FAt0XOX9u+T3-Z2gJQAV-Y7xZS_k6YG74VhPqejQA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9EB5050D-E54E-4E8B-84C6-95CC1FAC4081@gmx.com>

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On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 2:05 PM, Peter R via bitcoin-dev <
bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

> With a tightening of the rule set, a hash power minority that has not
> upgraded will not produce a minority branch; instead they will simply have
> any invalid blocks they produce orphaned, serving as a wake-up call to
> upgrade.
>

False. With bip9-based soft-fork-based activation of segwit, miner blocks
will not be orphaned unless they are intentionally segwit-invalid (which
they currently are not). If you have told miners otherwise, let me know.

- Bryan
http://heybryan.org/
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-03-26 20:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-24 16:03 [bitcoin-dev] Defending against empty or near empty blocks from malicious miner takeover? CANNON
2017-03-24 16:27 ` Emin Gün Sirer
2017-04-14  2:22   ` CANNON
2017-03-24 17:29 ` Nick ODell
2017-03-24 17:37   ` Hampus Sjöberg
2017-03-24 19:00 ` Aymeric Vitte
2017-03-25 16:12   ` CANNON
2017-03-25 20:28     ` Peter R
2017-03-26  2:38       ` Alex Morcos
2017-03-26  9:13         ` Chris Pacia
2017-03-26 11:27           ` Alex Morcos
2017-03-26 19:05         ` Peter R
2017-03-26 20:20           ` Alphonse Pace
2017-03-26 20:22           ` Bryan Bishop [this message]
2017-03-26 20:37             ` Trevin Hofmann
2017-03-26 20:44               ` Bryan Bishop
2017-03-26 21:12             ` Eric Voskuil
2017-03-26 21:42             ` Tom Harding
2017-03-26 22:15           ` Eric Voskuil
2017-03-27 10:25             ` Aymeric Vitte
2017-03-26  3:00       ` [bitcoin-dev] Two altcoins and a 51% attack (was: Defending against empty or near empty blocks from malicious miner takeover?) Eric Voskuil
2017-03-24 19:00 ` [bitcoin-dev] Defending against empty or near empty blocks from malicious miner takeover? Aymeric Vitte

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