Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] [BIP draft] CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY - Prevent a txout from being spent until an expiration time

From: Tom Harding <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2014 21:07:15 -0700

On 10/7/2014 8:50 AM, Gavin Andresen wrote:
>
> I don't have any opinion on the hard- versus soft- fork debate. I 
> think either can work.
>

Opinion: if a soft work works, it should be preferred, if for no other 
reason than once a hard-fork is planned, the discussion begins about 
what else to throw in.  To minimize the frequency of hard-forks, the 
time for that is when the change being considered actually requires one.