From: Peter Todd <pete@petertodd•org>
To: Mark Friedenbach <mark@friedenbach•org>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org>,
Anthony Towns <aj@erisian•com.au>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] CHECKSEQUENCEVERIFY - We need more usecases to motivate the change
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 13:09:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151006110917.GA10136@muck> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOG=w-uEwwDGA3_RF1Epp=xLG7rS4y2O7f9EOfAUa1hAiWkLGQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 05:19:06PM -0700, Mark Friedenbach via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> Alex, decreasing granularity is a soft-fork, increasing is a hard-fork.
> Therefore I've kept the highest possible precision (1 second, 1 block) with
> the expectation that at some point in the future if we need more low-order
> bits we can soft-fork them to other purposes, we can decrease granularity
> at that time.
You should write that up in the BIP, along with a description of how
exactly that would go; I suspect the most obvious way of dong that
upgrade - just increase precision for everyone - would break
compatbility too much to be practical.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-06 11:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-03 14:30 Peter Todd
2015-10-03 18:49 ` jl2012
2015-10-04 8:35 ` Anthony Towns
2015-10-04 12:04 ` s7r
2015-10-05 22:03 ` Alex Morcos
2015-10-06 0:19 ` Mark Friedenbach
2015-10-06 11:09 ` Peter Todd [this message]
2015-10-06 0:28 ` Btc Drak
2015-10-06 1:58 ` Rusty Russell
2015-10-08 17:41 ` Peter Todd
2015-10-09 1:38 ` Rusty Russell
2015-10-15 13:47 ` Alex Morcos
2015-10-15 16:27 ` Btc Drak
2015-10-15 16:37 ` Adam Back
2015-10-15 16:41 ` Alex Morcos
2015-10-15 18:31 ` Mark Friedenbach
2015-10-15 23:18 ` Rusty Russell
2015-10-16 1:26 ` Rusty Russell
2015-10-19 10:43 ` Jorge Timón
2015-10-06 20:00 ` Joseph Poon
2015-10-08 17:43 ` Peter Todd
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