On Sat, Apr 15, 2017 at 8:42 AM, Mark Friedenbach via bitcoin-dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > The alternative [Greg presents] (new BIP bit) has the clear downside > of not triggering BIP141 activation, and therefore not enabling the > new consensus rules on already deployed full nodes. BIP148 is making > an explicit choice to favor dragging along those users which have > upgraded to BIP141 support over those miners who have failed to > upgrade.
A proposal from yesterday would separate this concern; though not retroactively. One way to name this proposal would be "Catch-All Segwit Activation". "extended BIP9 activation of segwit, for legacy nodes" https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2017-April/014160.html If this release valve exists, then discussions (such as this thread) can get back to focusing on finding the safest incentive-compatible transitions, with time improving the situation instead of making it worse. _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing list bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
