From: Peter Todd <pete@petertodd•org>
To: Justus Ranvier <justusranvier@riseup•net>
Cc: bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] The difficulty of writing consensus critical code: the SIGHASH_SINGLE bug
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2014 18:26:49 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141106232649.GD26859@savin.petertodd.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <545BFAD6.1000504@riseup.net>
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On Thu, Nov 06, 2014 at 04:48:54PM -0600, Justus Ranvier wrote:
> Why not schedule protocol upgrades every two years for the foreseeable
> future?
For the same reason we don't do hard-forking upgrades of basically every
protocol on the planet on a regular basis, even when we don't have
consensus problems to worry about.
Flag days are really rare in engineering, and for good reason.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-06 23:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-06 21:32 Peter Todd
2014-11-06 21:58 ` Tamas Blummer
2014-11-06 22:05 ` Matt Corallo
2014-11-06 22:11 ` Jeff Garzik
2014-11-06 22:48 ` Justus Ranvier
2014-11-06 23:26 ` Peter Todd [this message]
2014-11-06 23:36 ` Justus Ranvier
2014-11-07 0:03 ` Peter Todd
2014-11-07 8:07 ` Tamas Blummer
2014-11-07 8:48 ` Peter Todd
2014-11-07 11:30 ` Clément Elbaz
2014-11-07 11:47 ` Peter Todd
2014-11-07 12:01 ` Wladimir
2014-11-07 16:52 ` Mike Hearn
2014-11-15 4:43 ` Jean-Pierre Rupp
2014-11-06 23:19 ` Peter Todd
2014-11-06 23:12 ` Peter Todd
2014-11-07 2:04 ` Gregory Maxwell
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