On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 02:12:08AM -0400, shaolinfry via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> Someone sent me a copy of the Barry Silbert agreement, an agreement forged 
> between a select number of participants https://pastebin.com/VuCYteJh

It's interesting how changing the bit used to signal could be used as a way to
try to trick people into changing node software ASAP to support the hard-fork
code. Basically, the narrative would be that other software *doesn't* support
segwit, so you have to upgrade right away.

> A fourth option, first suggested to me by James Hilliard, was to make BIP148 
> miner triggered (MASF) with a lower threshold, above 50%. I coded this up a 
> few weeks ago 
> https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/compare/master...shaolinfry:segsignal but 
> didnt get around to posting to the ML yet. This effectively lowers the 
> threshold from 95% to 65% as coded, or could be upped to 80% or whatever was 
> preferable.

In contrast this proposal wouldn't have that effect, because as you point out
it's compatibel with the existing segwit protocol once activated.

Smells like political engineering to me.

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