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From: Mike Hearn <hearn@vinumeris•com>
To: Btc Drak <btcdrak@gmail•com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Let's deploy BIP65 CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY!
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2015 16:17:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+w+GKRK-_JQ3fEJFcO3t4Pr4HioWfqt-qbtFLxTSEnpLYnopA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADJgMzvCMPCto7fra+H=U3b9hCY7rCPDOV2DgOS4bLzz+PTLUg@mail.gmail.com>

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>
> 2. As for SPV wallets need to handle awareness of the new blocks.
>

There is simply no need for any wallets to change. Making the spec a hard
fork instead of a soft fork means all existing software does the right
thing automatically.

To repeat, please bear in mind that bitcoinj is no longer the only SPV
wallet implementation. BreadWallet has its own code in Objective-C and is
the second most popular SPV implementation (and growing). Additionally,
bitcoinj is incorporated into lots of apps that'd have to have new versions
released, some of which don't have any way to force a user to update.

So it's not just my time you'd waste: it's lots of different people's.

One thing I haven't seen yet is the justification for why a soft fork
should be used here. There's no requirement that it be so, and there are
real downsides. As Eric said, the fact that the mechanism has issues is not
under dispute.

The normal justification for this it's that it's forwards compatible. But
that's not a justification, that's a description.

Re: XT, I already addressed this above.

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-28 14:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 101+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-27 18:50 Peter Todd
2015-09-27 20:26 ` jl2012
2015-09-27 20:27   ` Peter Todd
2015-09-27 20:27 ` Mark Friedenbach
2015-09-27 20:41 ` Btc Drak
2015-09-28 10:10 ` s7r
2015-09-28 10:48 ` Mike Hearn
2015-09-28 11:00   ` Adam Back
2015-09-28 11:40     ` Mike Hearn
2015-09-28 12:20       ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-09-28 12:26         ` Mike Hearn
2015-09-28 12:44           ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-09-28 12:54             ` Mike Hearn
2015-09-29  6:17               ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-09-29 12:02                 ` Mike Hearn
2015-09-28 14:05       ` Btc Drak
2015-09-28 14:17         ` Mike Hearn [this message]
2015-09-28 21:12     ` odinn
2015-09-28 22:16       ` Dave Scotese
2015-09-28 11:04   ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-09-28 12:47   ` Tier Nolan
2015-09-28 13:01   ` Gavin Andresen
2015-09-28 13:28     ` Peter Todd
2015-09-28 13:43       ` Gavin Andresen
2015-09-28 14:14         ` Peter Todd
2015-09-28 13:21   ` Peter Todd
2015-09-28 13:41     ` Mike Hearn
2015-09-28 14:29       ` Peter Todd
2015-09-28 14:33         ` Mike Hearn
2015-09-28 14:43           ` Peter Todd
2015-09-28 14:51             ` Mike Hearn
2015-09-28 15:05               ` Peter Todd
2015-09-28 15:38                 ` Mike Hearn
2015-09-28 16:52                   ` jl2012
2015-09-28 17:14                     ` Mike Hearn
2015-09-28 23:17                       ` Jorge Timón
2015-09-29 12:07                         ` Mike Hearn
2015-09-29 15:09                           ` [bitcoin-dev] Why soft-forks? was: " Santino Napolitano
2015-09-29 13:30             ` [bitcoin-dev] " Jonathan Toomim (Toomim Bros)
2015-09-29 15:59               ` jl2012
2015-09-29 19:54                 ` odinn
2015-09-29 18:31   ` Gregory Maxwell
2015-09-30 17:11     ` Mike Hearn
2015-09-30 17:58       ` Jorge Timón
2015-10-01 14:23         ` Tom Harding
2015-09-30 18:15       ` Adam Back
2015-09-30 19:26       ` Jeff Garzik
2015-09-30 19:56         ` Mike Hearn
2015-09-30 20:37           ` Jorge Timón
2015-09-30 21:06             ` Mike Hearn
2015-09-30 22:14               ` Jorge Timón
2015-10-01  0:11                 ` Jorge Timón
2015-09-30 22:17           ` Jeff Garzik
2015-09-30 23:25             ` Gregory Maxwell
2015-09-30 20:15       ` Gregory Maxwell
2015-09-30 21:01         ` Mike Hearn
2015-09-30 22:59           ` Gregory Maxwell
2015-10-01  4:08           ` [bitcoin-dev] Crossing the line? [Was: Re: Let's deploy BIP65 CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY!] Tao Effect
2015-10-01 16:39             ` Jeff Garzik
2015-10-01 20:17               ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-10-02 12:23               ` Mike Hearn
2015-10-02 13:14                 ` jl2012
2015-10-02 14:10                   ` Marcel Jamin
2015-10-02 16:37                 ` Gregory Maxwell
2015-10-07 15:00     ` [bitcoin-dev] Let's deploy BIP65 CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY! Anthony Towns
2015-10-07 15:46       ` Jonathan Toomim (Toomim Bros)
2015-10-07 16:02         ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-10-07 16:25           ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-10-07 16:26           ` Jonathan Toomim (Toomim Bros)
2015-10-07 16:38         ` Anthony Towns
2015-10-10  7:23       ` Anthony Towns
2015-10-12  7:02       ` digitsu
2015-10-12 16:33         ` Anthony Towns
2015-10-12 17:06         ` Anthony Towns
2015-10-13  0:08           ` digitsu
2015-09-29 20:03 ` Wladimir J. van der Laan
2015-09-30  4:05   ` Rusty Russell
2015-09-30  6:19     ` Adam Back
2015-09-30 12:30       ` Mike Hearn
2015-09-30 15:55         ` Jorge Timón
2015-09-30 19:17           ` John Winslow
2015-10-01  0:06             ` Rusty Russell
2015-09-30 17:14         ` Adam Back
2015-10-01  0:04       ` Rusty Russell
2015-10-02  1:57 NotMike Hearn
2015-10-02  2:12 ` GC
2015-10-05 10:59   ` Mike Hearn
2015-10-05 11:23     ` Jeff Garzik
2015-10-05 11:28       ` Mike Hearn
2015-10-05 12:04         ` Jorge Timón
2015-10-05 12:08           ` Clément Elbaz
2015-10-05 12:16             ` Jorge Timón
2015-10-05 12:29               ` Clément Elbaz
2015-10-05 15:42                 ` Jorge Timón
2015-10-05 12:10           ` Mike Hearn
2015-10-05 15:33             ` Jorge Timón
2015-10-05 16:46               ` Mike Hearn
2015-10-06  6:20                 ` Anthony Towns
2015-10-07  6:13                 ` Micha Bailey
2015-10-05 13:29   ` Jorge Timón
2015-10-05 13:24 ` Jorge Timón

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