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πŸ“… Original date posted:2017-07-06 πŸ“ Original message:On Wednesday 05 July 2017 8:06:33 AM Gregory Maxwell via bitcoin-dev wrote: > These proposals for gratuitous orphaning are reckless and coersive. > We have a professional obligation to first do no harm, and amplifying > orphaning which... show more
πŸ“… Original date posted:2017-07-07 πŸ“ Original message:I have written a height based reference implementation as well as updated the BIP text in the following proposals "lockinontimeout" was just an implementation detail to allow BIP8 the BIP9 implementation code. With the change to height based,... show more
πŸ“… Original date posted:2017-07-05 πŸ“ Original message:I've already opened a PR almost 2 weeks ago to do this and fix the other issues BIP 9 has. github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/550 It just needs your ACK to merge. On Wednesday 05 July 2017 1:30:26 AM shaolinfry via bitcoin-dev wrote: > Some people have... show more
πŸ“… Original date posted:2017-07-05 πŸ“ Original message:Luke, I previously explored an extra state to require signalling before activation in an earlier draft of BIP8, but the overall impression I got was that gratuitous orphaning was undesirable, so I dropped it. I understand the motivation behind... show more
πŸ”– Title: Height based vs block time based thresholds 🏷️ Categories: bitcoin-dev πŸ‘₯ Authors: β€’ Troy Benjegerdes ( Raspy Cheetah ) β€’ Eric Voskuil ( Energetic Gamefowl ) β€’ shaolinfry ( shaolinfry [ARCHIVE] ) β€’ Hampus SjΓΆberg ( Prickly Eagle ) β€’ Jorge TimΓ³n ( Angry Canid ) β€’ Luke Dashjr ( Funny Cicada ) β€’ Gregory Maxwell ( ... show moreEmpty Felidae
πŸ“… Original date posted:2017-07-04 πŸ“ Original message:Some people have criticized BIP9's blocktime based thresholds arguing they are confusing (the first retarget after threshold). It is also vulnerable to miners fiddling with timestamps in a way that could prevent or delay activation - for... show more
πŸ“… Original date posted:2017-05-26 πŸ“ Original message:Matt Corallo <lf-lists at mattcorallo.com> writes: > A more important consideration than segwit's timeout is when code can be > released, which will no doubt be several months after SegWit's current > timeout. I was assuming it would be... show more
πŸ“… Original date posted:2017-05-26 πŸ“ Original message:I agree the date can be brought forward. FWIW, I originally set the date far out enough that people wouldn't immediately fixate on the date and rather look at the meat of the proposal instead. Given that we saw around 70% of nodes upgrade to... show more
πŸ”– Title: Barry Silbert segwit agreement 🏷️ Categories: bitcoin-dev πŸ‘₯ Authors: β€’ shaolinfry ( shaolinfry [ARCHIVE] ) β€’ Hampus SjΓΆberg ( Prickly Eagle ) β€’ Tom Zander ( Fantastic Lobster ) β€’ Daniele Pinna ( Bewildered Herring ) β€’ Peter Todd ( Noisy Bovid ) β€’ James Hilliard ( Tense Bobolink ) β€’ Matt Corallo ( Shaky Condor ) β€’ Jacob... show more
πŸ“… Original date posted:2017-05-22 πŸ“ Original message:Someone sent me a copy of the Barry Silbert agreement, an agreement forged between a select number of participants pastebin.com/VuCYteJh Participants agree to immediately activate Segwit, however, under a different activation proposal. Since I have spent... show more
πŸ”– Title: Draft BIP: Segwit deployment with versionbits and guaranteed lock-in 🏷️ Categories: bitcoin-dev πŸ‘₯ Authors: β€’ shaolinfry ( shaolinfry [ARCHIVE] ) β€’ Luke Dashjr ( Funny Cicada ) πŸ“… Messages Date: 2017-04-26 βœ‰οΈ Message Count: 2 πŸ“š Total Characters in Messages: 6471
πŸ“… Original date posted:2017-04-26 πŸ“ Original message:This is a draft BIP proposal to redeploy segwit using BIP-8, from the day after the current BIP9 segwit times out. This BIP could be deployed long before Nov 15th 2016, for example in July allowing wide deployment to begin soon. The timeout... show more
πŸ“… Original date posted:2017-04-14 πŸ“ Original message:Segwit has proven more contentious to activate than anticipated (although my read has long been that the technical consensus is clear, despite noisy objections). No matter which method is used to eventually activate segwit, or on what... show more
πŸ“… Original date posted:2017-04-14 πŸ“ Original message:You might be interested in my bip-uaversionbits proposal github.com/shaolinfry/bips/blob/bip-uavb/bip-ua... Segwit has proven more contentious to activate than anticipated (although my read has long been that the technical consensus is clear, despite noisy objections). No matter... show more
πŸ“… Original date posted:2017-04-15 πŸ“ Original message:Thank-you for your prompt response, I believe I must have a different prospective of Bitcoin to you. Ideologically I don’t agree that miners can be passive participants in the Bitcoin Network; and I certainly don’t see them acting as passive... show more
πŸ“… Original date posted:2017-04-20 πŸ“ Original message:Dear Greg, Thank you for taking the time to review the BIP148 proposal. I agree with much of your thoughts. I originally started working on a generalized way to deploy user activated soft forks, in a way that leveraged BIP9 to allow for... show more
πŸ”– Title: Draft BIP: Version bits extension with guaranteed lock-in 🏷️ Categories: bitcoin-dev πŸ‘₯ Authors: β€’ shaolinfry ( shaolinfry [ARCHIVE] ) β€’ Ryan Grant ( Great Llama ) β€’ Kekcoin ( Bored Panther ) β€’ praxeology_guy ( Crooked Grasshopper ) πŸ“… Messages Date Range: 2017-04-06 to 2017-04-18 βœ‰οΈ Message Count: 6 πŸ“š Total... show more
πŸ“… Original date posted:2017-04-06 πŸ“ Original message:After some thought I managed to simplify the original uaversionbits proposal introducing a simple boolean flag to guarantee lock-in of a BIP9 deployment by the timeout. This seems to be the simplest form combining optional flag day activation... show more
πŸ“… Original date posted:2017-03-13 πŸ“ Original message:Fundamentally, what you have described is not a UASF, it is a miner attack on other miners. 51% of hash power has always been able to collude to orphan blocks that contain transactions they have blacklisted (a censorship soft fork). This is... show more