Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Using service bit 24 for utreexo signaling in testnet and signet

From: Luke Dashjr <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2023 13:20:35 -0500

This sounds like something that should be written up as a BIP and use a 
normal service bit assignment...?

Luke

On 3/2/23 01:55, kcalvinalvin via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Wanted to tell the mailing list that I'll be using service bit 24 (1 
> << 24) to signal that nodes are Utreexo capable nodes on testnet and 
> signet as requested by the comment in protocol.h in 
> bitcoind (https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/74981aa02d2b14ad1c0b82d1eb09cf3169eaa8ae/src/protocol.h#L295-L301). 
> There are plans to release binaries for the utreexo node 
> (github.com/utreexo/utreexod) in the next few months so that power 
> users can try it out. I have no plans to release binaries for mainnet 
> yet.
>
> Do let me know if someone else is using the same bit to signal for 
> something else and we can coordinate accordingly.
>
> Best,
> Calvin
>
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