Re: [bitcoin-dev] Pre-BIP Growth Soft-hardfork

2016-02-07 Thread jl2012--- via bitcoin-dev
ginal Message- From: bitcoin-dev-boun...@lists.linuxfoundation.org [mailto:bitcoin-dev-boun...@lists.linuxfoundation.org] On Behalf Of Luke Dashjr via bitcoin-dev Sent: Sunday, 7 February, 2016 17:53 To: Bitcoin Dev Subject: [bitcoin-dev] Pre-BIP Growth Soft-hardfork Here's a draft BIP I wrot

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Pre-BIP Growth Soft-hardfork

2016-02-07 Thread Tier Nolan via bitcoin-dev
This is a specific implementation of the "nuclear option" soft fork (or "firm-fork"). The problem with any hard-fork (like) change is that there is an incentive to add as much as possible and then the process gets bogged down. Since the POW is based on the header 1, you could make header 3 expand

[bitcoin-dev] Pre-BIP Growth Soft-hardfork

2016-02-07 Thread Luke Dashjr via bitcoin-dev
Here's a draft BIP I wrote almost a year ago. I'm going to look into revising and completing it soon, and would welcome any suggestions for doing so. This hardfork BIP aims to accomplish a few important things: - Finally deploying proper merge-mining as Satoshi suggested before he left. - Expandi