On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 5:36 PM, Alex Waters <ampe...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Gavin Andresen <gavinandre...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> What do other people think? I think it is too high risk for too >> little benefit and shouldn't be done until we have a really compelling >> reason to introduce a forking change. > > Could we bundle this and potential future blockchain-splitting changes > - to implement them in a major release (down the road)? Or save them > for when they are very necessary? > > TL;DR shelf it until needed, have it written just in case.
I'm generally opposed to doing "too much" at once in this kind of change. Some changes, like this one, are completely uncontroversial (except some argument about having fork causing change at all) where some have more complicated social/economic impacts (the block size being among them, though probably not the worst). Moreover, the longer we go between such changes the more the cost is perceived to be infinite. Better to take one per year, with six months of gap between implementation, and give everyone the right expectations than to have prolonged arguments due to our inexperience that only get trumped by emergency changes. General network health and user security _requires_ periodic upgrades in any case, and will for the foreseeable future. The whole notion that old versions will _stop working_ would be a pretty good thing at this point in bitcoin's existence, judging by the high number of pre-.24 listeners still reported. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ BlackBerry® DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA Learn about the latest advances in developing for the BlackBerry® mobile platform with sessions, labs & more. See new tools and technologies. Register for BlackBerry® DevCon today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-devcon-copy1 _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development