From: jl2012@xbt•hk
To: Peter Todd <pete@petertodd•org>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] CLTV/CSV/etc. deployment considerations due to XT/Not-BitcoinXT miners
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2015 13:32:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c20a83f511d7023f9cdd2df4713cddf9@xbt.hk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150819055036.GA19595@muck>
Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev 於 2015-08-19 01:50 寫到:
>
>
> 2) nVersion mask, with IsSuperMajority()
>
> In this option the nVersion bits set by XT/Not-Bitcoin-XT miners would
> be masked away, prior to applying standard IsSuperMajority() logic:
>
> block.nVersion & ~0x20000007
>
> This means that CLTV/CSV/etc. miners running Bitcoin Core would create
> blocks with nVersion=8, 0b1000. From the perspective of the
> CLTV/CSV/etc. IsSuperMajority() test, XT/Not-Bitcoin-XT miners would
> be
> advertising blocks that do not trigger the soft-fork.
>
> For the perpose of soft-fork warnings, the highest known version can
> remain nVersion=8, which is triggered by both XT/Not-Bitcoin-XT blocks
> as well as a future nVersion bits implementation. Equally,
> XT/Not-Bitcoin-XT soft-fork warnings will be triggered, by having an
> unknown bit set.
>
> When nVersion bits is implemented by the Bitcoin protocol, the plan of
> setting the high bits to 0b001 still works. The three lowest bits will
> be unusable for some time, but will be eventually recoverable as
> XT/Not-Bitcoin-XT mining ceases.
>
> Equally, further IsSuperMajority() softforks can be accomplished with
> the same masking technique.
>
> This option does complicate the XT-coin protocol implementation in the
> future. But that's their problem, and anyway, the maintainers
> (Hearn/Andresen) has strenuously argued(5) against the use of
> soft-forks
> and/or appear to be in favor of a more centralized mandatory update
> schedule.(6)
>
If you are going to mask bits, would you consider to mask all bits
except the 4th bit? So other fork proposals may use other bits for
voting concurrently.
And as I understand, the masking is applied only during the voting
stage? After the softfork is fully enforced with 95% support, the
nVersion will be simply >=8, without any masking?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-20 17:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-19 5:50 Peter Todd
2015-08-19 6:10 ` Mark Friedenbach
2015-08-19 9:34 ` Jorge Timón
2015-08-19 10:20 ` Btc Drak
2015-08-19 10:31 ` Jorge Timón
2015-08-19 13:15 ` Btc Drak
2015-08-19 13:24 ` Tier Nolan
2015-08-19 17:25 ` Btc Drak
2015-08-19 18:17 ` Tier Nolan
2015-08-19 12:36 ` Matt Corallo
2015-08-19 13:22 ` Tier Nolan
2015-08-19 14:01 ` Jeff Garzik
2015-08-19 16:32 ` Mark Friedenbach
2015-08-19 21:03 ` Peter Todd
2015-08-20 17:32 ` jl2012 [this message]
2015-08-20 17:42 ` Mark Friedenbach
2015-08-27 22:11 ` Btc Drak
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-08-18 1:22 [bitcoin-dev] BIP: Using Median time-past as endpoint for locktime calculations Thomas Kerin
2015-08-19 1:04 ` Peter Todd
2015-08-19 1:08 ` Mark Friedenbach
2015-08-21 11:13 ` Thomas Kerin
2015-08-22 0:57 ` Peter Todd
2015-08-27 22:08 ` Btc Drak
2015-08-27 23:19 ` Peter Todd
2015-08-28 15:27 ` jl2012
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