From: Tom Zander <tomz@freedommail•ch>
To: bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] [BIP Proposal] Buried Deployments
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2016 15:38:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1797370.j3ssDbnHdc@strawberry> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CEDAD65E-512A-43CA-9BD6-56F7D9E6897C@voskuil.org>
Here is my thinking.
The BIP process is about changes to a living project which is the bitcoin
prptocol.
This specific BIP got accepted and we know in the blockchain that
this event (the acceptance) is recorded.
Before a certain block the rules were one way, after they were changed.
I have no problem with changing the *code* to be less complex because it
already knows the past. A checkpoint is the same, it is the registeration of
a past event.
This makes software less complex and still capable of checking the entire
blockchain from genesis.
I don’t see any harm in this change. I see prudent software engineering
practices.
On Monday, 14 November 2016 10:47:35 CET Eric Voskuil via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> NACK
>
> Horrible precedent (hardcoding rule changes based on the assumption that
> large forks indicate a catastrophic failure), extremely poor process
> (already shipped, now the discussion), and not even a material
> performance optimization (the checks are avoidable once activated until a
> sufficiently deep reorg deactivates them).
--
Tom Zander
Blog: https://zander.github.io
Vlog: https://vimeo.com/channels/tomscryptochannel
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-11-16 14:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-11-14 18:17 Suhas Daftuar
2016-11-14 18:47 ` Eric Voskuil
2016-11-15 14:42 ` Suhas Daftuar
2016-11-15 17:45 ` Btc Drak
2016-11-15 22:42 ` Eric Voskuil
2016-11-16 13:29 ` Jameson Lopp
2016-11-16 13:58 ` Eric Voskuil
2016-11-16 14:18 ` Tier Nolan
2016-11-16 14:32 ` Alex Morcos
2016-11-16 21:01 ` Peter Todd
2016-11-16 22:21 ` Eric Voskuil
2016-11-17 3:06 ` Luke Dashjr
2016-11-16 14:18 ` Thomas Kerin
2016-11-16 23:58 ` Jorge Timón
2016-11-17 0:00 ` Eric Voskuil
2016-11-17 1:24 ` Alex Morcos
2016-11-17 1:41 ` Eric Voskuil
2016-11-17 0:13 ` Eric Voskuil
2016-11-16 23:48 ` Jorge Timón
2016-11-17 1:50 ` Pieter Wuille
2016-11-17 2:16 ` Eric Voskuil
2016-11-17 2:47 ` Pieter Wuille
2016-11-17 10:10 ` Eric Voskuil
2016-11-16 14:38 ` Tom Zander [this message]
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