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From: Eric Voskuil <eric@voskuil.org>
To: Pieter Wuille <pieter.wuille@gmail.com>,
	Bitcoin Protocol Discussion
	<bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>,
	Juan Garavaglia <jg@112bit.com>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Issolated Bitcoin Nodes
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 18:58:37 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <cfdd397d-afac-e0c3-b347-558152d7a81b@voskuil.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPg+sBjrjUFJZnCtmcvZYs_pc4T3YzU_jtK+eZANyGKSLavrXg@mail.gmail.com>

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On 03/23/2017 05:20 PM, Pieter Wuille via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 3:37 PM, Juan Garavaglia via bitcoin-dev 
> <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>> Long story short, when nodes 0.13+ receive blocks from 0.13+
>> nodes all is ok, and those blocks propagate to older nodes with
>> no issues. But when a block tries to be propagated from bitcoind
>> 0.12.+ to newer ones those blocks are NOT being propagated to the
>> peers with newer versions while these newer blocks are being
>> propagated to peers with older versions with no issues.
>> 
>> My conclusion is that we have a backward compatibility issue
>> between 0.13.X+ and older versions.
> 
> Hello Juan,
> 
> this is expected behaviour. Nodes with segwit active only download 
> blocks from other segwit peers, as old peers cannot provide the 
> witness data they need to verify the blocks.

Juan's statement pertains to incompatibility, not mysterious causation.

Clearly it's a material consideration. Is it an oversight that this is
not documented as an incompatibility in any of the segwit BIPs?

I don't recall any discussion on the importance of segwit bridge
nodes. Is there a plan for bridging mainnet?

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2017-03-24  1:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-23 22:37 [bitcoin-dev] Issolated Bitcoin Nodes Juan Garavaglia
2017-03-23 23:01 ` Matt Corallo
2017-03-23 23:14 ` Andrew Chow
2017-03-24  3:38   ` Andrew Chow
2017-03-24  0:20 ` Pieter Wuille
2017-03-24  0:31   ` James Hilliard
2017-03-24  1:58   ` Eric Voskuil [this message]

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