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From: Tom Zander <tomz@freedommail•ch>
To: bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP148 temporary service bit (1 << 27)
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2017 21:46:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3654399.ZkJ0Jlgova@cherry> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201706191926.25006.luke@dashjr.org>

On Monday, 19 June 2017 21:26:22 CEST Luke Dashjr via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> To ease the transition to BIP148 and to minimise risks in the event miners
> choose to perform a chain split attack, at least Bitcoin Knots will be
> using the temporary service bit (1 << 27) to indicate BIP148 support.
> 
> Once the transition is complete, this will no longer be necessary, and the
> bit will be (manually) returned for reuse.
> 
> I encourage other software implementing BIP148 (both full and light nodes)
> to set and use this service bit to avoid network partitioning risks.

I'm curious what you action on the finding (or not) of a peer with this bit 
set (or not).
Can you link to the github commit where you implemented this?
-- 
Tom Zander
Blog: https://zander.github.io
Vlog: https://vimeo.com/channels/tomscryptochannel


  reply	other threads:[~2017-06-19 19:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-06-19 19:26 Luke Dashjr
2017-06-19 19:46 ` Tom Zander [this message]
2017-06-19 20:24   ` Mark Friedenbach

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