From: Eric Lombrozo <elombrozo@gmail•com>
To: Ahmed Zsales <ahmedzsales18@gmail•com>
Cc: bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin is an experiment. Why don't we have an experimental hardfork?
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2015 19:53:16 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AE1DA2ED-86D2-48CB-BE0B-57CB0F5B8503@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADr=VrROXW0cvCYKsidxSLgtYvBxPAGvcv_FFbeTAFJ3tF6AiQ@mail.gmail.com>
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As an aside, combining reward halving with block size limit doubling would have probably been a good idea :)
> On Aug 18, 2015, at 3:51 PM, Ahmed Zsales via bitcoin-dev <bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> -> You need to take into account the reward halving, likely to be in 3Q2016. Forks and reward halving at the same time would possibly be a bad combination.
>
> -> The original proposed date for the fork was December 2015. It was pushed back to January as December is a busy period for a lot of people and businesses. Likewise, June is a busy period for people. July / August is a good period as it is quiet because people go on holiday. A window of 2 months during holiday periods is better than starting in June. January 2016 is better, mainly because of the excessive reward halving chatter likely to be going on..
>
> ..
> Proposal (parameters in ** are my recommendations but negotiable):
>
> 1. Today, we all agree that some kind of block size hardfork will happen on t1=*1 June 2016*
>
> 2. If no other consensus could be reached before t2=*1 Feb 2016*, we will adopt the backup plan
>
> 3. The backup plan is: t3=*30 days* after m=*80%* of miner approval, but not before t1=*1 June 2016*, the block size is increased to s=*1.5MB*
>
> 4. If the backup plan is adopted, we all agree that a better solution should be found before t4=*31 Dec 2017*.
> ..
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-19 2:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-18 9:54 jl2012
2015-08-18 11:57 ` Micha Bailey
2015-08-18 18:52 ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-08-18 20:48 ` Danny Thorpe
2015-08-18 20:51 ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-08-18 21:06 ` Danny Thorpe
2015-08-18 21:17 ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-08-18 21:39 ` Danny Thorpe
2015-08-19 9:29 ` Jorge Timón
2015-08-19 10:14 ` odinn
2015-08-19 11:06 ` Jorge Timón
2015-08-19 11:25 ` odinn
2015-08-19 15:22 ` jl2012
2015-08-19 15:48 ` Tier Nolan
2015-08-19 15:25 ` Jorge Timón
2015-08-19 17:30 ` Danny Thorpe
2015-08-19 18:33 ` Jorge Timón
2015-08-18 22:51 ` Ahmed Zsales
2015-08-19 2:53 ` Eric Lombrozo [this message]
2015-08-19 9:24 ` Jorge Timón
2015-08-19 10:34 ` jl2012
2015-08-19 10:53 ` Jorge Timón
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