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From: Pieter Wuille <pieter.wuille@gmail.com>
To: Eric Voskuil <eric@voskuil.org>,
	 Bitcoin Protocol Discussion
	<bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] [BIP Proposal] Buried Deployments
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2016 17:50:53 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPg+sBiGwz23mm5fCKUrg7GpWwuJ=3Nf2DcN89KxG=g_Wz4vBw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A98BB7F2-7AE2-4D84-9F38-7E7E9D5D3210@voskuil.org>

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On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 5:58 AM, Eric Voskuil via bitcoin-dev <
bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

> This sort of statement represents one consequence of the aforementioned
> bad precedent.
>
> Are checkpoints good now?
>

So far in this discussion, and in a thread that has forked off, I think 3
cases of implementation aspects have been mentioned that under certain
circumstances result in the validity of chains changing:
* Buried softforks (by simplifying the activation rules for certain rules)
* Not verifying BIP30 after BIP34 is active (since only under a SHA256^2
collision a duplicate txid can occur)
* The existence (and/or removal) of checkpoints (in one form or another).

None of these will influence the accepted main chain, however. If they ever
do, Bitcoin has far worse things to worry about (years-deep reorgs, or
SHA256 collisions).

If you were trying to point out that buried softforks are similar to
checkpoints in this regard, I agree. So are checkpoints good now? I believe
we should get rid of checkpoints because they seem to be misunderstood as a
security feature rather than as an optimization. I don't think buried
softforks have that problem.

-- 
Pieter

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-11-17  1:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-14 18:17 [bitcoin-dev] [BIP Proposal] Buried Deployments Suhas Daftuar
2016-11-14 18:47 ` Eric Voskuil
2016-11-15 14:42   ` Suhas Daftuar
2016-11-15 17:45   ` Btc Drak
2016-11-15 22:42     ` Eric Voskuil
2016-11-16 13:29       ` Jameson Lopp
2016-11-16 13:58         ` Eric Voskuil
2016-11-16 14:18           ` Tier Nolan
2016-11-16 14:32             ` Alex Morcos
2016-11-16 21:01               ` Peter Todd
2016-11-16 22:21                 ` Eric Voskuil
2016-11-17  3:06                 ` Luke Dashjr
2016-11-16 14:18           ` Thomas Kerin
2016-11-16 23:58             ` Jorge Timón
2016-11-17  0:00               ` Eric Voskuil
2016-11-17  1:24                 ` Alex Morcos
2016-11-17  1:41                   ` Eric Voskuil
2016-11-17  0:13             ` Eric Voskuil
2016-11-16 23:48           ` Jorge Timón
2016-11-17  1:50           ` Pieter Wuille [this message]
2016-11-17  2:16             ` Eric Voskuil
2016-11-17  2:47               ` Pieter Wuille
2016-11-17 10:10                 ` Eric Voskuil
2016-11-16 14:38   ` Tom Zander

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