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From: Johnson Lau <jl2012@xbt•hk>
To: Tom Harding <tomh@thinlink•com>
Cc: bitcoin-dev <bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Anti-transaction replay in a hardfork
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2017 04:47:22 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <D7E940F0-FDAB-4F99-B17C-B418BEBFF96E@xbt.hk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5276b225-0a90-8539-6024-17b74433cb29@thinlink.com>


> On 26 Jan 2017, at 03:32, Tom Harding <tomh@thinlink•com> wrote:
> 
> On 1/24/2017 8:03 PM, Johnson Lau wrote:
>> it seems they are not the same: yours is opt-out, while mine is opt-in.
> 
> I missed this.  So in fact you propose a self-defeating requirement on the new network, which would force unmodified yet otherwise compatible systems to change to support the new network at all. This is unlikely to be included in new network designs.
> 
> I suggest that the opt-out bits proposal comes from a more realistic position that would actually make sense for everyone.
> 

I think there are some misunderstanding. You’d better read my source code if my explanation is not clear.

From my understanding our proposals are the same, just with a bitwise not (~) before the network characteristic byte. So you set a bit to opt-out a network, while I set a bit to opt-in a network (and opt-out any other)


  reply	other threads:[~2017-01-27 20:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-24 14:33 Johnson Lau
2017-01-24 18:52 ` Tom Harding
2017-01-25  4:03   ` Johnson Lau
2017-01-25 19:32     ` Tom Harding
2017-01-27 20:47       ` Johnson Lau [this message]
2017-01-27 22:11         ` Tom Harding
2017-01-25  1:22 ` Natanael
2017-01-25  7:05   ` Johnson Lau
2017-01-25  7:15     ` Natanael
2017-01-25  7:21       ` Johnson Lau
2017-01-25  7:29         ` Natanael
2017-01-25  7:42           ` Johnson Lau
2017-01-26  3:29 ` Matt Corallo
2017-01-26  7:03   ` Chris Priest
2017-01-26  7:14     ` Johnson Lau
2017-01-26  8:59       ` Chris Priest
2017-01-26  9:20         ` Johnson Lau
2017-01-26 10:55           ` Edmund Edgar
2017-01-26 15:58           ` Tom Harding
2017-01-26 17:21   ` Gavin Andresen
2017-01-26 17:41     ` Matt Corallo

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