📅 Original date posted:2015-08-18 📝 Original message:As an aside, combining reward halving with block size limit doubling would have probably been a good idea :) > On Aug 18, 2015, at 3:51 PM, Ahmed Zsales via bitcoin-dev <bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > > -> You need to take into account the reward halving, likely to be in 3Q2016. Forks and reward halving at the same time would possibly be a bad combination. > > -> The original proposed date for the fork was December 2015. It was pushed back to January as December is a busy period for a lot of people and businesses. Likewise, June is a busy period for people. July / August is a good period as it is quiet because people go on holiday. A window of 2 months during holiday periods is better than starting in June. January 2016 is better, mainly because of the excessive reward halving chatter likely to be going on.. > > .. > Proposal (parameters in ** are my recommendations but negotiable): > > 1. Today, we all agree that some kind of block size hardfork will happen on t1=*1 June 2016* > > 2. If no other consensus could be reached before t2=*1 Feb 2016*, we will adopt the backup plan > > 3. The backup plan is: t3=*30 days* after m=*80%* of miner approval, but not before t1=*1 June 2016*, the block size is increased to s=*1.5MB* > > 4. If the backup plan is adopted, we all agree that a better solution should be found before t4=*31 Dec 2017*. > .. > _______________________________________________ > bitcoin-dev mailing list > bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org > lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/attachments/20150818/a9a42330/attachment-0001.html> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 842 bytes Desc: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail URL: <lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/attachments/20150818/a9a42330/attachment-0001.sig>