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From: Gavin Andresen <gavinandresen@gmail.com>
To: Tom Zander <tomz@freedommail.ch>,
	 Bitcoin Protocol Discussion
	<bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Start time for BIP141 (segwit)
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2016 12:35:58 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABsx9T2sWKFKpRYsjcgcdef+nL7X9-4+3H10hAy1FsXaax38Og@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1782741.nelbyupFSb@strawberry>

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On Sun, Oct 16, 2016 at 10:58 AM, Tom Zander via bitcoin-dev <
bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

> The fallow period sounds waaaay to short. I suggest 2 months at minimum
> since anyone that wants to be safe needs to upgrade.
>

I asked a lot of businesses and individuals how long it would take them to
upgrade to a new release over the last year or two.

Nobody said it would take them more than two weeks.

If somebody is running their own validation code... then we should assume
they're sophisticated enough to figure out how to mitigate any risks
associated with segwit activation on their own.

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Gavin Andresen

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-10-16 16:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-16 14:31 [bitcoin-dev] Start time for BIP141 (segwit) Pieter Wuille
2016-10-16 14:58 ` Tom Zander
2016-10-16 16:35   ` Gavin Andresen [this message]
2016-10-16 16:42     ` Tom Zander
2016-10-16 16:57       ` Johnson Lau
2016-10-16 17:04       ` [bitcoin-dev] On the security of soft forks Matt Corallo
2016-10-16 16:42     ` [bitcoin-dev] Start time for BIP141 (segwit) Eric Voskuil
2016-10-16 16:47     ` Douglas Roark
2016-10-16 18:20       ` Tom Zander
2016-10-16 18:41         ` Jorge Timón
2016-10-16 18:54           ` Tom Zander
2016-10-16 19:11             ` Johnson Lau
2016-10-16 20:08               ` Tom Zander
2016-10-17  3:46                 ` Johnson Lau
2016-10-16 19:35         ` [bitcoin-dev] (no subject) Matt Corallo
2016-10-16 20:45           ` Tom Zander
2016-10-17 13:13             ` Btc Drak
2016-10-16 19:49         ` [bitcoin-dev] Start time for BIP141 (segwit) Douglas Roark
2016-10-16 20:58           ` Tom Zander
2016-10-16 21:03             ` gb
2016-10-16 21:08             ` Marek Palatinus
2016-10-16 21:19             ` Andrew C
2016-10-17 11:17               ` Tom Zander
2016-10-17 13:09                 ` Peter Todd
2016-10-17 13:19                 ` Andrew C
2016-10-17 13:27                   ` Btc Drak
2016-10-17 13:31                 ` Jorge Timón
2016-10-16 20:14         ` Btc Drak
2016-10-16 16:08 ` Chris Belcher
2016-10-16 17:52 ` Matt Corallo
2016-10-16 21:49 ` Peter Todd

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