(The email last week was an April Fools. I did my best to make light of the situation...)

February 2nd: Community meeting (100+ attendees including Core contributors) where there was broad consensus that BIP 9 was "dead" in favor of BIP 8. BIP 8 (which uses block heights) was revised to be a BIP 9 replacement.

March 6th: With no clear community consensus on whether the LOT parameter should be set to true or false in BIP 8, Russell O'Connor proposed "Speedy Trial". Taking an excerpt from David Harding's mailing list post "Speedy Trial is a way to generate fast progress" and can "fail fast".

April 6th: There are two open PRs in Bitcoin Core. PR #21377 from AJ Towns which attempts to bring BIP 9 back to life and use MTP over block height because MTP is better for test networks. (Apparently mainnet is a test network for testnet and signet these days) And PR #21392 from Andrew Chow which uses BIP 8 and block height as discussed in those first community meetings. BIP 8 has been revised to incorporate Speedy Trial while BIP 9 hasn't.

I think we are fast approaching a time where we are in exactly the same situation as we were with the LOT parameter. Bitcoin Core is unable to merge anything because of limited opposition to using block height of all things.

I do encourage everyone to look at this and understand which individuals are making this situation absurd. They will most likely be the same individuals that decry the dangers of a future UASF having made "Speedy" Trial a total oxymoron.

I won't be attending the meeting later, I'd rather pull teeth. If people are in agreement with me on no further progress being possible in Core I think we will need to restart the UASF discussions. Luke warned that these kinds of shenanigans could happen but I really lacked imagination on the tricks some people could pull.

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