I've already opened a PR almost 2 weeks ago to do this and fix the other issues BIP 9 has. https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/550
It just needs your ACK to merge. On Wednesday 05 July 2017 1:30:26 AM shaolinfry via bitcoin-dev wrote: > Some people have criticized BIP9's blocktime based thresholds arguing they > are confusing (the first retarget after threshold). It is also vulnerable > to miners fiddling with timestamps in a way that could prevent or delay > activation - for example by only advancing the block timestamp by 1 second > you would never meet the threshold (although this would come a the penalty > of hiking the difficulty dramatically). On the other hand, the exact date > of a height based thresholds is hard to predict a long time in advance due > to difficulty fluctuations. However, there is certainty at a given block > height and it's easy to monitor. If there is sufficient interest, I would > be happy to amend BIP8 to be height based. I originally omitted height > based thresholds in the interests of simplicity of review - but now that > the proposal has been widely reviewed it would be a trivial amendment. _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
