Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] [BIP draft] CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY - Prevent a txout from being spent until an expiration time

From: Peter Todd <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2014 18:06:06 -0700

On 1 October 2014 08:01:28 GMT-07:00, Gavin Andresen <[email-masked]> wrote:
>Very nice, semantics are clear and use cases are compelling.

Thanks!

>Can we defer discussion of how to roll this out for a little bit, and
>see
>if there is consensus that:
>
>a) benefits of having this outweigh risks
>b) we're all happy with exact semantics
>
>Then we can have a knock-down drag-out argument about whether it should
>roll out as a soft fork, wait for a hard fork, be combined with some
>other
>things that it would be nice to add or change, etc.....

Agreed. People should keep in mind that leaving the deployment details as "TBD" was quite deliberate. There is some code in the repo to implement a softfork, but it's only meant to be illustrative.