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From: "David A. Harding" <dave@dtrt•org>
To: Andrew C <achow101@gmail•com>
Cc: Bitcoin development mailing list <bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] nSequence multiple uses
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2016 23:10:42 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160123041042.GA5956@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADToNK-O-KWZjLzKAcUz9CZB65to=bCgTfRLTVFhLVKcCjO5bA@mail.gmail.com>

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On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 04:36:58PM +0000, Andrew C via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> Spending a time locked output requires setting nSequence to less than
> MAX_INT but opting into RBF also requires setting nSequence to less than
> MAX_INT. 

Hi Andrew,

Opt-in RBF requires setting nSequence to less than MAX-1 (not merely
less than MAX), so an nSequence of exactly MAX-1 (which appears in
hex-encoded serialized transactions as feffffff) enables locktime
enforcement but doesn't opt in to RBF.

For more information, please see BIP125:

    https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0125.mediawiki

-Dave


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  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-23  4:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-22 16:36 Andrew C
2016-01-23  4:10 ` David A. Harding [this message]
2016-01-23  4:41   ` Andrew C

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