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๐Ÿ”– Title: BIP 9 style version bits for txns ๐Ÿท๏ธ Categories: bitcoin-dev ๐Ÿ‘ฅ Authors: โ€ข Chris Priest ( Chris Priest [ARCHIVE] ) โ€ข Vincent Truong ( Vincent Truong [ARCHIVE] ) ๐Ÿ“… Messages Date: 2015-12-08 โœ‰๏ธ Message Count: 4 ๐Ÿ“š Total Characters in Messages: 13628
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Vincent Truong [ARCHIVE]
๐Ÿ“… Original date posted:2015-12-08 ๐Ÿ“ Original message:So I have been told more than once that the version announcement in blocks is not a vote, but a signal for readiness, used in isSupermajority(). Basically, if soft forks (and hard forks) won't activate unless a certain % of blocks have been... show more
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Chris Priest [ARCHIVE]
๐Ÿ“… Original date posted:2015-12-08 ๐Ÿ“ Original message:I proposed in my Wildcard Inputs BIP that the version field be split in two. The first 4 bytes are version number (which in practice is being used for script version), and the second 4 bits are used for transaction type. I don't think the BIP9... show more
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Vincent Truong [ARCHIVE]
๐Ÿ“… Original date posted:2015-12-08 ๐Ÿ“ Original message:I suppose whether the wallet devs want to implement the soft fork or not is irrelevant. They only need to indicate if they are ready i.e. they've tested the new soft fork, hard fork or feature and validated that it doesn't break their nodes or... show more
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Chris Priest [ARCHIVE]
๐Ÿ“… Original date posted:2015-12-08 ๐Ÿ“ Original message:A wallet doesn't receive transactions from other wallets. That is what a node does. Wallets just make transactions and then sends them to the nodes. Nodes then send them to other nodes. In the early days of bitcoin, all wallets were nodes, but... show more