From: Pieter Wuille <pieter.wuille@gmail•com>
To: Mike Hearn <mike@plan99•net>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP62 and future script upgrades
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2014 05:50:35 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPg+sBj=SxJiQiChLThNK=PUh-a=V+S=RV2pSUSdHc53GCA1+w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANEZrP1wi=Wc+BgMf+9GdLLbNMfSex8XkdCLWuAeS3sj9fDo1Q@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 5:38 AM, Mike Hearn <mike@plan99•net> wrote:
> This is another problem that only exists because of the desire to soft fork.
> If "script 2.0" is a hard fork upgrade, you no longer need weird hacks like
> scripts-which-are-not-scripts.
I agree.
I also agree that the desire for softforks sometimes lead to ugly hacks.
I also that they are not "nice" philosophically because they reduce
the security model of former full nodes to SPV wrt. the new rules
without their knowledge.
I also agree that hardforks should be possible when they're useful.
But in practice, hardforks have a much larger risk which just isn't
justified for everything. Especially when it's about introducing a new
transaction type that won't be used before the softfork takes place
anyway.
And to keep the option for doing future softforks open, I believe we
need to be aware of the effects of changes like this.
--
Pieter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-04 13:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-04 13:29 Pieter Wuille
2014-11-04 13:38 ` Mike Hearn
2014-11-04 13:50 ` Pieter Wuille [this message]
2014-11-04 14:01 ` Gavin Andresen
2014-11-04 19:13 ` Peter Todd
2014-11-04 19:56 ` Jeff Garzik
2014-11-04 20:00 ` Pieter Wuille
2014-11-04 20:07 ` Peter Todd
2014-11-05 7:53 ` Pieter Wuille
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