The "UASF movement" seems a bit premature to me - I doubt UASF will be necessary if a WTXID commitment is tried first. I think that should be first-efforts focus. On Sat, Apr 15, 2017 at 2:50 PM, Gregory Maxwell via bitcoin-dev < bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 15, 2017 at 1:42 PM, Mark Friedenbach via bitcoin-dev < > bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > >> triggering BIP141 activation, and therefore not enabling the new >> consensus rules on already deployed full nodes. BIP148 is making an >> explicit choice to favor dragging along those users which have upgraded to >> BIP141 support over those miners who have failed to upgrade. >> > > I do not follow the argument that a critical design feature of a > particular "user activated soft fork" could be that it is users don't need > to be involved. If the goal is user activation I would think that the > expectation would be that the overwhelming majority of users would be > upgrading to do it, if that isn't the case, then it isn't really a user > activated softfork-- it's something else. > > >> On an aside, I'm somewhat disappointed that you have decided to make a >> public statement against the UASF proposal. Not because we disagree -- that >> is fine -- but because any UASF must be a grassroots effort and >> endorsements (or denouncements) detract from that. >> > > So it has to be supported by the public but I can't say why I don't > support it? This seems extremely suspect to me. > > > > _______________________________________________ > bitcoin-dev mailing list > bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org > https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev > >