From: John Smith <witchspace81@gmail•com>
To: Stefan Thomas <moon@justmoon•de>
Cc: bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Version bytes
Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 08:18:19 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJNQ0su6MVJ7cz2uQ4ftGPykvYxWH7J7rk5Q0Us6JWM6zoW02Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJNQ0st3ygLHPtq8fa9ceivSC1DQ38Hv+AQRiaXw=aL2Jze33Q@mail.gmail.com>
[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 715 bytes --]
Sorry, that last message got broken off.
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 6:36 AM, Stefan Thomas <moon@justmoon•de> wrote:
>
>> Hey Pieter,
>>
>> > Otherwise, we could reset testnet (not actually reset, just
>> > change its addresses a bit), and simply state odd=testnet, even=realnet.
>>
>> We could use the XOR hack for now and remove it the next time we reset
>> testnet. But I do think the 111 is baggage we want to get rid of. Using
>> the lsb as a simple flag is much cleaner.
>>
>
I agree it is cleaner, but I think breaking compatiblity with older address
(even testnet) is not a good idea right now. It is important to build an
image of stability and backward compatibility.
So I vote for the XOR 111 hack :)
JS
[-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 1210 bytes --]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-08 8:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-07 11:15 Pieter Wuille
2011-07-07 19:40 ` Pieter Wuille
2011-07-08 6:36 ` Stefan Thomas
2011-07-08 8:16 ` John Smith
2011-07-08 8:18 ` John Smith [this message]
2011-07-08 9:25 ` Pieter Wuille
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=CAJNQ0su6MVJ7cz2uQ4ftGPykvYxWH7J7rk5Q0Us6JWM6zoW02Q@mail.gmail.com \
--to=witchspace81@gmail$(echo .)com \
--cc=bitcoin-development@lists$(echo .)sourceforge.net \
--cc=moon@justmoon$(echo .)de \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox