Re: [bitcoin-dev] extended BIP9 activation of segwit, for legacy nodes

2017-06-11 Thread Ryan Grant via bitcoin-dev
This[1] idea from April would assist in a BIP149-like segwit activation on November 16th. Its goal is to be incredibly easy to test and deploy, right now, even before a decision on revisions to BIP149 is made, and well before such "BIP149ish" testing is itself complete. UASFs don't need time for

Re: [bitcoin-dev] extended BIP9 activation of segwit, for legacy nodes

2017-04-14 Thread shaolinfry via bitcoin-dev
You might be interested in my bip-uaversionbits proposal https://github.com/shaolinfry/bips/blob/bip-uavb/bip-uaversionbits.mediawiki Segwit has proven more contentious to activate than anticipated (although my read has long been that the technical consensus is clear, despite noisy objections). N

[bitcoin-dev] extended BIP9 activation of segwit, for legacy nodes

2017-04-14 Thread Ryan Grant via bitcoin-dev
Segwit has proven more contentious to activate than anticipated (although my read has long been that the technical consensus is clear, despite noisy objections). No matter which method is used to eventually activate segwit, or on what timeline, it would be beneficial if validating nodes already ca