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From: Tom Zander <tomz@freedommail•ch>
To: Greg Sanders <gsanders87@gmail•com>
Cc: Bitcoin Protocol Discussion <bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP draft: Extended block header hardfork
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2017 18:17:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1528041.Pzi3X2XRt7@strawberry> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAB3F3DtuYjxp6Cg-nprq7qZanF_F2y0xUM7RUzoJ7Fdn9HtJXw@mail.gmail.com>

I notice you didn’t read the actual full line :)
If you click on it, you’ll notice at the end of the line it says;

“chainparams.GetConsensus().BIP34Hash”

so, this is about BIP34.


On Tuesday, 4 April 2017 17:44:40 CEST Greg Sanders wrote:
> That's BIP30, he linked BIP34:
> https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/src/validation.cpp#L3004
> 
> On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 11:32 AM, Tom Zander via bitcoin-dev <
> 
> bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > Can you tell me where it is enforced?
> > 
> > The only place I found was here;
> > https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/src/validation.cpp#L1793
> > 
> > which doesn’t enforce it, all that code does is check that the txid is
> > unknown or fully spent.
> > And since the below idea from Russel would change the txid, it would
> > seem
> > no
> > full client would reject this.
> > 
> > Maybe its in a BIP, but I can’t find it in the code.
> > 
> > On Tuesday, 4 April 2017 16:59:12 CEST James Hilliard wrote:
> > > It is a consensus rule
> > > https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0034.mediawiki
> > > 
> > > On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 6:47 AM, Tom Zander via bitcoin-dev
> > > 
> > > <bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > > > On Sunday, 2 April 2017 22:39:13 CEST Russell O'Connor via
> > > > bitcoin-dev
> > > > 
> > > > wrote:
> > > >>  Someone told me a while back that it would be more natural if we
> > > >>  move
> > > >>  the
> > > >> 
> > > >> nHeight from the coinbase script to the coinbase locktime.  Have
> > > >> you
> > > >> considered doing this?
> > > > 
> > > > That change would not be a consensus change and thus free to make
> > > > any
> > > > day.


-- 
Tom Zander
Blog: https://zander.github.io
Vlog: https://vimeo.com/channels/tomscryptochannel


      parent reply	other threads:[~2017-04-04 16:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-02 20:13 Johnson Lau
2017-04-02 20:39 ` Russell O'Connor
2017-04-03  3:36   ` Johnson Lau
2017-04-04 11:47   ` Tom Zander
2017-04-04 14:59     ` James Hilliard
2017-04-04 15:32       ` Tom Zander
2017-04-04 15:44         ` Greg Sanders
2017-04-04 16:03           ` Jean-Paul Kogelman
2017-04-04 16:17           ` Tom Zander [this message]

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