From: Oliver Egginger <bitcoin@olivere•de>
To: bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org
Subject: [bitcoin-dev] Will there be a freeze of the current protocol version?
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2015 12:16:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55D5A919.3030505@olivere.de> (raw)
Hello,
BitPay seems to support BIP 101:
https://medium.com/@spair/increasing-the-block-size-limit-85ff236fc516
We do not know where this is going. But I suspect that ultimately also
the core client will increase the block size.
Bitcoin is also the subject of research. I think that research is much
to slow (and uncertain) for many companies and users. This is the
reason for XT. Nevertheless, I think further research on the base of the
current protocol version is very important. Thus, I hope that the
current block chain survives. Albeit at a lower level with fewer
users. And expressly not to sabotage necessary changes in the main project.
Let's suppose XT prevails or core is changed within the terms of BIP 101:
Do you think that there are enough people to continue with the old
protocol version? Would developers fork a Bitcoin client for supporting
the old nodes with security updates? Or will there be a compatibility
mode in XT, so that XT behave like an old Bitcoin node? What about
smaller but important projects like picocoin?
- oliver
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2015-08-20 10:16 Oliver Egginger [this message]
2015-08-21 3:10 ` odinn
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