From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@exmulti•com>
To: Luke-Jr <luke@dashjr•org>
Cc: bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] UUID to identify chains (payment protocol and elsewhere)
Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 10:55:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+8xBpf4HLnNrxt+8mMJiiemKcrDyppzgLkmmJNr3o9o5k6sRQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201305221429.49704.luke@dashjr.org>
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Luke-Jr <luke@dashjr•org> wrote:
> In some cases, multiple currencies can use the same blockchain (not just the
> singular genesis block). This use case *is* something we want to encourage -
> no reason for people to make an entirely new blockchain if their altcoin fits
> within the scope of Bitcoin or another existing altchain.
OK, let me qualify. Layers on top are one thing, but we really do not
want to support cases like the fork that leaves the genesis block
intact, and leaves the subsidy at 50.0 BTC forever.
--
Jeff Garzik
exMULTI, Inc.
jgarzik@exmulti•com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-22 14:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-20 23:59 Mark Friedenbach
2013-05-21 2:45 ` Jeff Garzik
2013-05-21 3:30 ` Mike Hearn
2013-05-21 4:00 ` Mark Friedenbach
2013-05-21 4:04 ` Luke-Jr
2013-05-22 10:27 ` Melvin Carvalho
2013-05-22 14:07 ` Jeff Garzik
2013-05-22 14:12 ` Melvin Carvalho
2013-05-22 14:20 ` Jeff Garzik
2013-05-22 14:29 ` Luke-Jr
2013-05-22 14:55 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2013-05-22 15:59 ` Gavin Andresen
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