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From: Erik Aronesty <erik@q32.com>
To: Alphonse Pace <alp.bitcoin@gmail.com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] I do not support the BIP 148 UASF
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2017 11:48:21 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJowKgK9r_V0q+JoBha=KFL45gKz9HKjnFJyWXrKGrHgFbvL_A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMBsKS9P1wBNS9u1Ly5USQ=YTd-m8uMK-xZGYkYa4J=f+jz3ow@mail.gmail.com>

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Bitcoin must level the playing field for mining or it is fundamentally
broken.   And there are two obvious solutions:

1. WTXID commitment has as a flag day upgrade. It's a fix to a fairly
serious security issue - made even worse by the existence of patents on the
code.

2. Embed the code for performing a covert ASICBOOST into Bitcoin core's
reference implementation.   But, since this would violate patents held in
China and the U.S., it could be a problem.

Of these, I think the first should be far less controversial.

One or the other must be done - if we can't fix security and licensing
problems in Bitcoin, what can we fix?


On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 10:23 AM, Alphonse Pace <alp.bitcoin@gmail.com>
wrote:

> A WTXID commitment would (likely) need to be a UASF.
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 11:17 AM, Erik Aronesty via bitcoin-dev <
> bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
>> The "UASF movement" seems a bit premature to me - I doubt UASF will be
>> necessary if a WTXID commitment is tried first.   I think that should be
>> first-efforts focus.
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 15, 2017 at 2:50 PM, Gregory Maxwell via bitcoin-dev <
>> bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, Apr 15, 2017 at 1:42 PM, Mark Friedenbach via bitcoin-dev <
>>> bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> triggering BIP141 activation, and therefore not enabling the new
>>>> consensus rules on already deployed full nodes. BIP148 is making an
>>>> explicit choice to favor dragging along those users which have upgraded to
>>>> BIP141 support over those miners who have failed to upgrade.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I do not follow the argument that a critical design feature of a
>>> particular "user activated soft fork" could be that it is users don't need
>>> to be involved.  If the goal is user activation I would think that the
>>> expectation would be that the overwhelming majority of users would be
>>> upgrading to do it, if that isn't the case, then it isn't really a user
>>> activated softfork-- it's something else.
>>>
>>>
>>>> On an aside, I'm somewhat disappointed that you have decided to make a
>>>> public statement against the UASF proposal. Not because we disagree -- that
>>>> is fine -- but because any UASF must be a grassroots effort and
>>>> endorsements (or denouncements) detract from that.
>>>>
>>>
>>> So it has to be supported by the public but I can't say why I don't
>>> support it? This seems extremely suspect to me.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
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  reply	other threads:[~2017-04-20 15:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-15 13:42 [bitcoin-dev] I do not support the BIP 148 UASF Mark Friedenbach
2017-04-15 14:54 ` Ryan Grant
2017-04-15 18:50 ` Gregory Maxwell
2017-04-19 16:17   ` Erik Aronesty
2017-04-20 14:23     ` Alphonse Pace
2017-04-20 15:48       ` Erik Aronesty [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-04-14 10:52 Chris Acheson
2017-04-14  7:56 Gregory Maxwell
2017-04-14 16:50 ` praxeology_guy
2017-04-14 17:36   ` Chris Stewart
2017-04-14 18:33     ` praxeology_guy
2017-04-14 19:12   ` Tom Zander
2017-04-14 19:20 ` Tom Zander
2017-04-14 19:33   ` James Hilliard
2017-04-14 20:34     ` Tom Zander
2017-04-14 20:51       ` James Hilliard
2017-04-14 20:58         ` Tom Zander
2017-04-14 21:10           ` James Hilliard
2017-04-14 21:12             ` Gregory Maxwell
2017-04-14 20:59       ` Gregory Maxwell
2017-04-15  2:01 ` Steven Pine
2017-04-15  3:05   ` Chris Stewart
2017-04-15  3:29   ` Gregory Maxwell
2017-04-15  4:10     ` Steven Pine
2017-04-15  4:47       ` Gregory Maxwell
2017-04-15  6:28 ` Cameron Garnham
2017-04-15  7:04   ` Gregory Maxwell
2017-04-15  7:46     ` Chris Acheson
2017-04-15 13:23       ` Natanael
2017-04-15 13:54         ` Greg Sanders
2017-04-15  8:05     ` Cameron Garnham
2017-04-20 18:39 ` shaolinfry
2017-04-25 18:28   ` Gregory Maxwell
2017-04-25 18:46     ` Luke Dashjr
2017-05-02 16:54       ` Erik Aronesty
2017-05-22 19:23 ` Suhas Daftuar
2017-05-23  4:03   ` Steven Pine
2017-05-23  6:30     ` Karl Johan Alm
2017-05-23 12:55       ` Luke Dashjr
2017-05-23 13:20         ` Jorge Timón
2017-05-23  9:47     ` Hampus Sjöberg

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