From: Tier Nolan <tier.nolan@gmail•com>
Cc: Bitcoin Development <bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Consensus-enforced transaction replacement via sequence numbers
Date: Thu, 28 May 2015 16:18:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAE-z3OXO++0n+UVKe1KYyGv=GyHrZ-MsJtYELk+KC6cEV2UbHQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOG=w-tQyrc8ncAFauDObmBYn3uSwBcLoWVqruaV6PcTUFbTKg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 3:59 PM, Mark Friedenbach <mark@friedenbach•org>
wrote:
> Why 3? Do we have a version 2?
>
I meant whatever the next version is, so you are right, it's version 2.
> As for doing it in serialization, that would alter the txid making it a
> hard fork change.
>
The change is backwards compatible (since there is no restrictions on
sequence numbers). This makes it a soft fork.
That doesn't change the fact that you are changing what a field in the
transaction represents.
You could say that the sequence number is no longer encoded in the
serialization, it is assumed to be 0xFFFFFFFF for all version 2+
transactions and the relative locktime is a whole new field that is the
same size (and position).
I think keeping some of the bytes for other uses is a good idea. The
entire top 2 bytes could be ignored when working out relative locktime
verify. That leaves them fully free to be set to anything.
It could be that if the MSB of the bottom 2 bytes is set, then that
activates the rule and the top 2 bytes are ignored.
Are there any use-cases which need a RLTV of more than 8191 blocks delay
(that can't be covered by the absolute version)?
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Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-27 1:50 Mark Friedenbach
2015-05-27 7:47 ` Peter Todd
2015-05-27 8:18 ` Gregory Maxwell
2015-05-27 10:00 ` Tier Nolan
2015-05-27 10:58 ` Peter Todd
2015-05-27 17:07 ` Jorge Timón
2015-05-27 8:04 ` Telephone Lemien
2015-05-27 10:11 ` Mike Hearn
2015-05-27 15:26 ` Mark Friedenbach
2015-05-27 17:39 ` Mike Hearn
2015-05-28 9:56 ` Mark Friedenbach
2015-05-28 10:23 ` Mike Hearn
2015-05-28 10:30 ` Tier Nolan
2015-05-28 12:04 ` Peter Todd
2015-05-28 13:35 ` Tier Nolan
2015-05-28 16:22 ` s7r
2015-05-28 17:21 ` Tier Nolan
2015-05-28 14:59 ` Mark Friedenbach
2015-05-28 15:18 ` Tier Nolan [this message]
2015-05-28 15:38 ` Mark Friedenbach
2015-05-28 15:57 ` Tier Nolan
2015-06-10 2:40 ` Rusty Russell
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