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From: Luke Dashjr <luke@dashjr•org>
To: Peter Todd <pete@petertodd•org>
Cc: bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP: Block signal enforcement via tx fees
Date: Sat, 13 May 2017 16:42:44 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201705131642.45124.luke@dashjr.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170513124848.GC8884@fedora-23-dvm>

On Saturday 13 May 2017 12:48:48 PM Peter Todd wrote:
> > You assume users will pay for signalling of softforks prematurely. So
> > long as it waits until deployment of the softfork is widespread, this
> > risk is minimal. At worst, it creates risks similar to a UASF. So long
> > as UASF is the alternative, this way seems strictly better.
> 
> I think you're assuming that the users paying for soft-fork signalling will
> represent an economic majority; that's not necessarily the case.

I'm assuming that if the economic majority hasn't consented to the softfork, 
at least as many users will make their transactions conditional on non-
signalling.



  reply	other threads:[~2017-05-13 16:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-12 19:22 Luke Dashjr
2017-05-12 22:17 ` ZmnSCPxj
2017-05-12 22:22 ` Peter Todd
2017-05-13  0:49   ` Luke Dashjr
2017-05-13  3:26     ` Eric Voskuil
2017-05-13  3:54       ` ZmnSCPxj
2017-05-13  5:36         ` Eric Voskuil
2017-05-13  5:45       ` Luke Dashjr
2017-05-13  6:43         ` Eric Voskuil
2017-05-13 12:48     ` Peter Todd
2017-05-13 16:42       ` Luke Dashjr [this message]
2017-05-13  4:23 ` Russell O'Connor
2017-05-13  5:26   ` Luke Dashjr
2017-05-13 17:11     ` Russell O'Connor
2017-05-15  1:14       ` Rusty Russell
2017-05-20  5:05       ` Anthony Towns
2017-05-14 12:18 ` ZmnSCPxj

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