On Sun, Feb 07, 2016 at 03:20:27PM -0500, Gavin via bitcoin-dev wrote: > > On Feb 7, 2016, at 2:27 PM, <jl2...@xbt.hk> <jl2...@xbt.hk> wrote: > > Normal version number only suggests softforks, which is usually not a > > concern for SPV clients. > Soft forks affect the security of low-confirmation (zero or one) transactions > sent to SPV wallets even more than hard forks,
This isn't true for soft-forks that only forbid transactions that would already be rejected for forwarding and mining due to being non-standard. > and because many users and businesses choose convenience over airtight > security I would argue transaction validation rule changes are a VERY big > concern for lightweight clients. I agree on that point; but ensuring soft-forks only affect non-standard transactions already addresses that concern in every way I've been able to discover. Cheers, aj _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing list bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
