I hear consensus that at some point we need a hardfork (== creating blocks that will not be accepted by <0.7 clients).
Miners generate block, hence they are the ones who should filter themselves though some consensus. > But we cannot just drop support for old nodes. It is completely unreasonable > to put the > _majority_ of the network on a fork, without even as much as a discussion > about it. > "Oh, you didn't get the memo? The rules implemented in your client are > outdated." - that > is not how Bitcoin works: the network defines the rules. Consensus was rapidly reached a day ago: To ensure the majority (all of?) the network could accept the blocks mined, and not just 0.8. This was the right decision! Too many was dependent on <=0.7 So, the question is not if, but when to do a hardfork. We need to define and monitor the % of nodes running different versions (preferably a weighted average - some nodes, like e.g. blockchain.info & mtgox serve many...). Once there was the rowit bitcoinstatus page - do we have another resource for this ? Then the second question is how to ensure we don't create a fork again? Pieter (and others?) are of the opinion that we should mimic a 0.7 lock-object-starvation-reject-rule. I don't like this for three reasons: 1. I find it hard to ensure we have actually coined the bug precisely 2. I expect that similar issues will happen again 3. The current issue was between two versions, but in the future it could be between two implementations - then trying implement or even to coordinate strange rules becomes very unlikely. Hence the scheme for "considerate mining" - it is the only scheme that guarantees 100% that no block are released that will not be accepted by a supermajority of the install base. Another nice thing about it - it requires no development :) So simply run in serial in front of all considerate miners nodes of different versions until a certain threshold of the install base is reached. /M ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_mar _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development