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From: Mark Friedenbach <mark@friedenbach.org>
To: Tom Harding <tomh@thinlink.com>
Cc: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP 68 (Relative Locktime) bug
Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2015 10:07:12 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOG=w-t+VCk66mM1N1Pc4PN2T9=X94hhyg_Pc+2_ULT51JfxCA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55994696.1090705@thinlink.com>

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Note that you can put 0 in the sequence number field and it would work just
as expected under the old rules. I will perhaps suggest instead that
Bitcoin Core post-0.11 switch to doing this instead for that case.

On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 8:00 AM, Tom Harding <tomh@thinlink.com> wrote:

> BIP 68 uses nSequence to specify relative locktime, but nSequence also
> continues to condition the transaction-level locktime.
>
> This dual effect will prevent a transaction from having an effective
> nLocktime without also requiring at least one of its inputs to be mined
> at least one block (or one second) ahead of its parent.
>
> The fix is to shift the semantics so that nSequence = MAX_INT - 1
> specifies 0 relative locktime, rather than 1.  This change will also
> preserve the semantics of transactions that have already been created
> with the specific nSequence value MAX_INT - 1 (for example all
> transactions created by the bitcoin core wallet starting in 0.11).
>
>
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-07-05 17:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-05 15:00 [bitcoin-dev] BIP 68 (Relative Locktime) bug Tom Harding
2015-07-05 16:17 ` Mark Friedenbach
2015-07-05 16:21   ` Pieter Wuille
2015-07-05 16:25   ` Tom Harding
2015-07-05 17:07 ` Mark Friedenbach [this message]
2015-07-05 19:50   ` Tom Harding
2015-07-05 19:57     ` Tom Harding

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