From: Eric Voskuil <eric@voskuil.org>
To: Suhas Daftuar <sdaftuar@gmail.com>,
Bitcoin Protocol Discussion
<bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] [BIP Proposal] Buried Deployments
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2016 10:47:35 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CEDAD65E-512A-43CA-9BD6-56F7D9E6897C@voskuil.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFp6fsGmynRXLCqKAA+iBXObGOZ2h3DVW8k5L9kSfbPmL1Y-QQ@mail.gmail.com>
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NACK
Horrible precedent (hardcoding rule changes based on the assumption that large forks indicate a catastrophic failure), extremely poor process (already shipped, now the discussion), and not even a material performance optimization (the checks are avoidable once activated until a sufficiently deep reorg deactivates them).
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> On Nov 14, 2016, at 10:17 AM, Suhas Daftuar via bitcoin-dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Recently Bitcoin Core merged a simplification to the consensus rules surrounding deployment of BIPs 34, 66, and 65 (https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/8391), and though the change is a minor one, I thought it was worth documenting the rationale in a BIP for posterity.
>
> Here's the abstract:
>
> Prior soft forks (BIP 34, BIP 65, and BIP 66) were activated via miner signaling in block version numbers. Now that the chain has long since passed the blocks at which those consensus rules have triggered, we can (as a simplification and optimization) replace the trigger mechanism by caching the block heights at which those consensus rules became enforced.
>
> The full draft can be found here:
>
> https://github.com/sdaftuar/bips/blob/buried-deployments/bip-buried-deployments.mediawiki
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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 [this message]
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
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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