From: Bryan Bishop <kanzure@gmail•com>
To: Trevin Hofmann <trevinhofmann@gmail•com>,
Bryan Bishop <kanzure@gmail•com>
Cc: Bitcoin Protocol Discussion <bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Defending against empty or near empty blocks from malicious miner takeover?
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2017 15:44:12 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABaSBaxopw2yUW6p7YKCWiYgARiG4CB7WpxMQ5eqZJzNHJfXfA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 3:37 PM, Trevin Hofmann <trevinhofmann@gmail•com>
wrote:
> He stated that "any invalid blocks they produce" will be orphaned. This is
> not false. If non-upgraded miners do not produce blocks that are invalid
> per the new rules, their blocks will not be orphaned. This is consistent
> with Peter's comment.
It's the other part of the statement- the "wakeup call to upgrade" from
producing invalid blocks? They aren't producing invalid blocks.
Additionally, if they want to be even more sure about this, they can run
the so-called "border nodes". No wakeup calls needed.... the point of a
soft-fork is to reduce incompatibility.
- Bryan
http://heybryan.org/
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-26 20:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-24 16:03 CANNON
2017-03-24 16:27 ` Emin Gün Sirer
2017-04-14 2:22 ` CANNON
2017-03-24 17:29 ` Nick ODell
2017-03-24 17:37 ` Hampus Sjöberg
2017-03-24 19:00 ` Aymeric Vitte
2017-03-25 16:12 ` CANNON
2017-03-25 20:28 ` Peter R
2017-03-26 2:38 ` Alex Morcos
2017-03-26 9:13 ` Chris Pacia
2017-03-26 11:27 ` Alex Morcos
2017-03-26 19:05 ` Peter R
2017-03-26 20:20 ` Alphonse Pace
2017-03-26 20:22 ` Bryan Bishop
2017-03-26 20:37 ` Trevin Hofmann
2017-03-26 20:44 ` Bryan Bishop [this message]
2017-03-26 21:12 ` Eric Voskuil
2017-03-26 21:42 ` Tom Harding
2017-03-26 22:15 ` Eric Voskuil
2017-03-27 10:25 ` Aymeric Vitte
2017-03-26 3:00 ` [bitcoin-dev] Two altcoins and a 51% attack (was: Defending against empty or near empty blocks from malicious miner takeover?) Eric Voskuil
2017-03-24 19:00 ` [bitcoin-dev] Defending against empty or near empty blocks from malicious miner takeover? Aymeric Vitte
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