I personally appreciate the minimal changes, and often encourage development to be done this way - when it needs to be released quickly. But does this need to be released quickly? - maybe the proposal should be renamed segwit 8mb and be discussed solely in terms of block weights. - a high consensus hard fork is probably preferable to a low consensus soft fork, however there is nothing to indicate that segwit as it stands isnt already very high consensus except for a handful of pool operators protecting fee income. - miners who currently object to segwit while pretending to like larger blocks will find some excuse to object to this too. - Given the challenges miners seem to have in flipping bits, I expect any fork that requires 95pct hash power to be vaporware. On Apr 3, 2017 11:02 AM, "Btc Drak via bitcoin-dev" < bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 10:09 PM, Sergio Demian Lerner via bitcoin-dev < > bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > >> The hard-fork is conditional to 95% of the hashing power has approved the >> segwit2mb soft-fork and the segwit soft-fork has been activated (which >> should occur 2016 blocks after its lock-in time) >> > > Miners signalling they have upgraded by flipping a bit in the nVersion > field has little relevance in a hard fork. If 100% of the hash power > indicates they are running this proposal, but the nodes don't upgrade, what > will happen? > > For the record, I actually talk a lot about hard forks with various > developers and am very interested in the research that Johnson in > particular is pioneering. However, I have failed to understand your point > about 95% miner signalling in relation to a hard fork, so I am eagerly > awaiting your explanation. > > _______________________________________________ > bitcoin-dev mailing list > bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org > https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev > >