Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] [BIP Proposal] Buried Deployments

From: Eric Voskuil <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2016 16:00:33 -0800

On 11/16/2016 03:58 PM, Jorge Timón via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 3:18 PM, Thomas Kerin via bitcoin-dev
> <[email-masked]> wrote:
>> BIP30 actually was given similar treatment after a reasonable amount of time
>> had passed.
>> https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/src/main.cpp#L2392
> 
> This is not really the same. BIP30 is not validated after BIP34 is
> active because blocks complying with BIP34 will always necessarily
> comply with BIP30 (ie coinbases cannot be duplicated after they
> include the block height).

This is a misinterpretation of BIP30. Duplicate transaction hashes can
and will happen and are perfectly valid in Bitcoin. BIP34 does not
prevent this.

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