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