From: Matt Corallo <lf-lists@mattcorallo•com>
To: Pieter Wuille <pieter.wuille@gmail•com>,
Bitcoin Protocol Discussion
<bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org>,
Pieter Wuille via bitcoin-dev
<bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org>,
Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Start time for BIP141 (segwit)
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2016 17:52:09 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F963D18-00A8-4425-8479-43034811664C@mattcorallo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPg+sBjdyJ297-GZvVc-wQwCEX-cRAGTNWDd92SgVzdCcD_ZMw@mail.gmail.com>
This start time seems reasonable to me. It is mostly in line with BIP 9's proposed defaults, which seems like an appropriate choice.
On October 16, 2016 10:31:55 AM EDT, Pieter Wuille via bitcoin-dev <bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>We're getting ready for Bitcoin Core's 0.13.1 release - the first one
>to include segregated witness (BIP 141, 143, 144, 145) for Bitcoin
>mainnet, after being extensively tested on testnet and in other
>software. Following the BIP9 recommendation [1] to set the versionbits
>start time a month in the future and discussion in the last IRC
>meeting [2], I propose we set BIP 141's start time to November 15,
>2016, 0:00 UTC (unix time 1479168000).
>
>Note that this is just a lower bound on the time when the versionbits
>signalling can begin. Activation on the network requires:
>(1) This date to pass
>(2) A full retarget window of 2016 blocks with 95% signalling the
>version bit (bit 1 for BIP141)
>(3) A fallow period consisting of another 2016 blocks.
>
> [1] https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0009.mediawiki
>[2]
>http://www.erisian.com.au/meetbot/bitcoin-core-dev/2016/bitcoin-core-dev.2016-10-13-19.04.log.html
>
>Cheers,
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-16 17:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-16 14:31 Pieter Wuille
2016-10-16 14:58 ` Tom Zander
2016-10-16 16:35 ` Gavin Andresen
2016-10-16 16:42 ` Tom Zander
2016-10-16 16:57 ` Johnson Lau
2016-10-16 17:04 ` [bitcoin-dev] On the security of soft forks Matt Corallo
2016-10-16 16:42 ` [bitcoin-dev] Start time for BIP141 (segwit) Eric Voskuil
2016-10-16 16:47 ` Douglas Roark
2016-10-16 18:20 ` Tom Zander
2016-10-16 18:41 ` Jorge Timón
2016-10-16 18:54 ` Tom Zander
2016-10-16 19:11 ` Johnson Lau
2016-10-16 20:08 ` Tom Zander
2016-10-17 3:46 ` Johnson Lau
2016-10-16 19:35 ` [bitcoin-dev] (no subject) Matt Corallo
2016-10-16 20:45 ` Tom Zander
2016-10-17 13:13 ` Btc Drak
2016-10-16 19:49 ` [bitcoin-dev] Start time for BIP141 (segwit) Douglas Roark
2016-10-16 20:58 ` Tom Zander
2016-10-16 21:03 ` gb
2016-10-16 21:08 ` Marek Palatinus
2016-10-16 21:19 ` Andrew C
2016-10-17 11:17 ` Tom Zander
2016-10-17 13:09 ` Peter Todd
2016-10-17 13:19 ` Andrew C
2016-10-17 13:27 ` Btc Drak
2016-10-17 13:31 ` Jorge Timón
2016-10-16 20:14 ` Btc Drak
2016-10-16 16:08 ` Chris Belcher
2016-10-16 17:52 ` Matt Corallo [this message]
2016-10-16 21:49 ` Peter Todd
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