Re: [bitcoin-dev] Moving towards user activated soft fork activation

2017-03-06 Thread Edmund Edgar via bitcoin-dev
On 7 March 2017 at 08:23, Gareth Williams wrote: > What you're describing is a hashpower activated soft fork to censor > transactions, in response to a user activated soft fork that the majority of > hashpower disagrees with. Well, they'd be censoring transactions to prevent the thing from acti

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Moving towards user activated soft fork activation

2017-03-06 Thread Edmund Edgar via bitcoin-dev
On 6 March 2017 at 18:18, David Vorick via bitcoin-dev wrote: > User activated soft forks, or perhaps more accurately called 'economically > forced soft forks' are a tool to use if the miners are in clear opposition > to the broader economy. I don't think they work for that, at least not for new

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Anti-transaction replay in a hardfork

2017-01-26 Thread Edmund Edgar via bitcoin-dev
On 26 January 2017 at 18:20, Johnson Lau via bitcoin-dev wrote: >You can’t anti-replay if you don’t even know a hardfork might happen. And I >think your hypothesis (replay reduces the incentive of split) is not supported >by the ETC/ETH split. I agree with the general point you're making, but y

Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP idea: Standardised p2sh bitcoin addresses requiring an arbitrary and/or combination of keys

2016-11-30 Thread Edmund Edgar via bitcoin-dev
On 30 November 2016 at 05:56, Erland Lewin via bitcoin-dev wrote: > This proposal describes a consistent way to create s type of p2sh addresses > (“Boolean addresses”) which can be redeemed by an arbitrary set of keys and > multi signatures combined with logical and/or operations. From our point

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Core and hard forks

2015-07-22 Thread Edmund Edgar via bitcoin-dev
> So to point out what I consider obvious: if Bitcoin requires central > control over its rules by a group of developers, it is completely > uninteresting to me. Consensus changes should be done using consensus, and > the default in case of controversy is no change. This is a really interesting th