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From: Michael Folkson <michaelfolkson@gmail.com>
To: jlrubin@mit.edu,
	 Bitcoin Protocol Discussion
	<bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] March 23rd 2021 Taproot Activation Meeting Notes
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2021 11:23:53 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFvNmHTtH=ohCY1e3nS5GVACzbBJs1MCEcYO-yxzRFOQqgULqQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Thanks for this Jeremy. I agree with the vast majority of this.

For those that missed yesterday's meeting the meeting log is here:
http://gnusha.org/taproot-activation/2021-03-23.log

Jeremy also livestreamed the meeting on his Twitch channel:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/960346848

On the choice between using block heights consistently or using a
weird mix of both block heights and MTP in the same activation
mechanism you can put me down for a NACK for the latter also.

In addition I documented here the preferences for a consistent use of
block height:
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/21377#issuecomment-802336038

If it was a direct choice between entirely block height or entirely
MTP then I probably wouldn't NACK either. But using a mix of both
makes no sense to me.

The two arguments in favor of using a weird mix of block heights and
MTP appear to be:
1) "additional review required to ensure height based activation"
2) To prevent a "marketed push to launch a UASF client."

On 1) I would argue that the additional review required is not
excessive by any means and we have the time to review a consistent use
of block height (especially if people spent their time reviewing a PR
with a consistent use of block height rather than arguing for a mix).
On 2) if we are making technical decisions based on speculating on the
marketing strategies of other projects Bitcoin Core is a very
different project to the project I thought it was.

I personally would find it much easier to reason about timings and
time intervals of the different activation phases if block heights are
used consistently across the activation mechanism rather than a weird
mix of both block heights and MTP.

Other than that, I agree it was an excellent meeting and thanks for
your efforts organizing and hosting the meeting.

-- 
Michael Folkson
Email: michaelfolkson@gmail.com
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             reply	other threads:[~2021-03-24 11:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-24 11:23 Michael Folkson [this message]
2021-03-24 18:10 ` [bitcoin-dev] March 23rd 2021 Taproot Activation Meeting Notes Jeremy
2021-03-24 19:14   ` Michael Folkson
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2021-03-24  3:46 Jeremy
2021-03-25  7:02 ` Anthony Towns
2021-03-25 14:30   ` Jeremy
2021-04-06  4:25 ` Rusty Russell
2021-04-07  1:20   ` Ryan Grant
2021-04-07  5:01     ` Rusty Russell
2021-04-07 13:42       ` Claus Ehrenberg
2021-04-07 15:25         ` eric
2021-04-07 17:13       ` Matt Corallo
2021-04-08 11:11       ` Anthony Towns

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