From: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail•com>
To: bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP16/17 replacement
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:11:56 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201201311711.57046.andyparkins@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201201311158.50801.luke@dashjr.org>
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On 2012 January 31 Tuesday, Luke-Jr wrote:
> I'm not aware of any remaining *tangible* objections to BIP 17 at this
> point (Gavin seems concerned over a theoretical
> risk-that-nobody-has-thought-of), but if there's a better solution, I'm
> perfectly fine Withdrawing BIP 17 to support it.
I imagine the BIP16 supporters would say the same? Isn't that the essence of
the current impasse?
> Both BIP 16 and 17 are backward compatible enough that people can continue
> to use the old clients with each other. An upgrade is only required to
> send to (or create/receive on) the new 3...-form addresses. That being
> said, it's quite possible to rewrite the practical implications of both
> BIP 16 and 17 in the format you seem to be suggesting. Doing so would even
> get rid of one of the major objections to BIP 16 (its inconsistency).
My suggestion is backward compatible. You'd only have to make version2
transactions for version2 addresses; and the join between version1 and
version2 is not a problem since the version1 source can be detected, and the
handling of the version2 transaction altered as appropriate (it's only a
matter of switching from the hash check to running the two scripts as
normal).
Andy
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Dr Andy Parkins
andyparkins@gmail•com
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-31 17:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-31 16:50 Andy Parkins
2012-01-31 16:58 ` Luke-Jr
2012-01-31 17:11 ` Andy Parkins [this message]
2012-02-01 9:48 ` Andy Parkins
2012-02-01 10:02 ` Pieter Wuille
2012-02-01 10:25 ` Andy Parkins
2012-01-31 17:45 ` Gregory Maxwell
2012-02-01 9:46 ` Andy Parkins
2012-02-01 14:14 ` Andy Parkins
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