From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp•com.au>
To: "Jorge Timón" <jtimon@jtimon•cc>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] [BIP Proposal] Version bits with timeout and delay.
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2015 13:26:43 +0930 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8737y9iw04.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABm2gDrLGHHn96JVpUX3kHcW0qx2fieAaYydb5EC_SGh=2hEFQ@mail.gmail.com>
Jorge Timón <jtimon@jtimon•cc> writes:
> I disagree with the importance of this concern and old soft/hardforks will
> replace this activation mechanism with height, so that's an argument in
> favor of using the height from the start. This is "being discussed" in a
> thread branched from bip99's discussion.
Thanks, I'll have to dig through bitcoin-dev and find it.
> Anyway, is this proposing to use the block time or the median block time?
> For some hardforks/softforks the block time complicates the implementation
> (ie in acceptToMemoryPool) as discussed in the mentioned thread.
BIP text is pretty clear that it's median block time.
This is only for timeout, not for soft fork rule change (which *is* 2016
blocks after 95% is reached).
Cheers,
Rusty.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-20 20:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-13 18:56 Rusty Russell
2015-09-16 15:53 ` Btc Drak
2015-09-16 17:53 ` Tier Nolan
2015-09-16 20:19 ` Rusty Russell
2015-09-16 20:27 ` Jorge Timón
2015-09-16 20:32 ` Tier Nolan
2015-09-16 20:38 ` Jorge Timón
2015-09-16 20:48 ` Tier Nolan
2015-09-16 20:54 ` Jorge Timón
2015-09-16 20:57 ` Tier Nolan
2015-09-16 21:03 ` Jorge Timón
2015-09-16 22:52 ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-09-17 10:38 ` Tier Nolan
2015-09-17 13:59 ` Jorge Timón
2015-09-17 21:57 ` Rusty Russell
2015-09-17 22:00 ` Rusty Russell
2015-09-19 5:04 ` Jorge Timón
2015-09-20 3:56 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2015-09-21 8:24 ` Jorge Timón
2015-09-21 10:34 ` Rusty Russell
2015-09-16 20:30 ` Tier Nolan
2015-09-18 1:19 ` Rusty Russell
2015-09-23 18:33 ` Tom Harding
2015-09-23 19:01 ` Gavin Andresen
2015-09-30 2:05 ` Rusty Russell
2015-09-30 23:41 ` Tom Harding
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