Re: [bitcoin-dev] Thoughts on soft-fork activation

2020-07-16 Thread ZmnSCPxj via bitcoin-dev
Good morning list, BlueMatt and aj, There is an idea circulating on IRC and elsewhere, which seems to be at least mildly supported by gmax and roconnor, which I will try to explain here. (These are my words, so if there is some mistake, I apologize) Basically: * Deploy a BIP8 `lockinontimeout=

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Thoughts on soft-fork activation

2020-07-14 Thread Matt Corallo via bitcoin-dev
Thanks Anthony for this writeup! I find it incredibly disappointing that the idea of naive flag day fork activation is being seriously discussed in the form of BIP 9. Activation of forks is not only about the included changes but also around the culture of how changes to Bitcoin should be and ar

[bitcoin-dev] Thoughts on soft-fork activation

2020-07-14 Thread Anthony Towns via bitcoin-dev
Hi, I've been trying to figure out a good way to activate soft forks in future. I'd like to post some thoughts on that. So: I think there's two proposals that are roughly plausible. The first is Luke's recent update to BIP 8: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0008.mediawiki It