From: Anthony Towns <aj@erisian•com.au>
To: "David A. Harding" <dave@dtrt•org>,
Bitcoin Protocol Discussion
<bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Automatically reverting ("transitory") soft forks, e.g. for CTV
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2022 10:28:40 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220422002840.GB5616@erisian.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <64a34b4d46461da322be51b53ec2eb01@dtrt.org>
On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 03:04:53PM -1000, David A. Harding via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> The main criticisms I'm aware of against CTV seem to be along the following
> lines: [...]
> Could those concerns be mitigated by making CTV an automatically reverting
> consensus change with an option to renew? [...]
Buck O Perley suggested that "Many of the use cases that people
are excited to use CTV for ([5], [6]) are very long term in nature
and targeted for long term store of value in contrast to medium of
exchange."
But, if true, that's presumably incompatible with any sort of sunset
that's less than many decades away, so doesn't seem much better than
just having it be available on a signet?
[5] https://github.com/kanzure/python-vaults/blob/master/vaults/bip119_ctv.py
[6] https://github.com/jamesob/simple-ctv-vault
If sunsetting were a good idea, one way to think about implementing it
might be to code it as:
if (DeploymentActiveAfter(pindexPrev, params, FOO) &&
!DeploymentActiveAfter(pindexPrev, params, FOO_SUNSET))
{
EnforceFoo();
}
That is to have sunsetting the feature be its own soft-fork with
pre-declared parameters that are included in the original activation
proposal. That way you don't have to have a second process debate about
how to go about (not) sunsetting the rules, just one on the merits of
whether sunsetting is worth doing or not.
Cheers,
aj
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-04-22 0:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-04-21 1:04 David A. Harding
2022-04-21 2:05 ` Luke Dashjr
2022-04-21 3:10 ` alicexbt
2022-04-21 5:56 ` Luke Dashjr
2022-04-21 6:20 ` Jeremy Rubin
2022-04-21 6:37 ` Luke Dashjr
2022-04-21 13:10 ` Jeremy Rubin
2022-04-24 15:22 ` Peter Todd
2022-04-21 14:58 ` Matt Corallo
2022-04-21 18:06 ` David A. Harding
2022-04-21 18:39 ` Matt Corallo
2022-04-21 22:28 ` David A. Harding
2022-04-21 23:02 ` Matt Corallo
2022-04-22 1:20 ` David A. Harding
2022-04-22 18:40 ` Matt Corallo
2022-04-22 18:49 ` Corey Haddad
2022-04-22 16:48 ` James O'Beirne
2022-04-22 17:06 ` James O'Beirne
2022-04-22 16:28 ` James O'Beirne
2022-04-22 17:25 ` [bitcoin-dev] Vaulting (Was: Automatically reverting ("transitory") soft forks) Russell O'Connor
2022-04-23 4:56 ` Billy Tetrud
2022-04-23 14:02 ` Russell O'Connor
2022-04-23 18:24 ` Matt Corallo
2022-04-23 19:30 ` Russell O'Connor
2022-04-24 23:03 ` Billy Tetrud
2022-04-25 17:27 ` Nadav Ivgi
2022-04-25 22:27 ` Russell O'Connor
2022-04-27 1:52 ` Billy Tetrud
2022-04-28 23:14 ` Nadav Ivgi
2022-04-28 23:51 ` Billy Tetrud
2022-04-22 18:35 ` [bitcoin-dev] Automatically reverting ("transitory") soft forks, e.g. for CTV Matt Corallo
2022-04-21 19:08 ` Jeremy Rubin
2022-04-22 0:28 ` Anthony Towns [this message]
2022-04-22 1:44 ` David A. Harding
2022-04-22 19:57 ` Antoine Riard
2022-04-25 5:12 ` ZmnSCPxj
2022-04-22 19:05 alicexbt
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