Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP 2 promotion to Final

On 10/03/16 00:53, Luke Dashjr wrote: > On Thursday, March 10, 2016 12:29:16 AM Mustafa Al-Bassam wrote: >>> the soft-fork does not become Final for as long as such a hard-fork >>> has potentially-majority support, or at most three months. >> This wording is awkward. What is "potentially-majority

Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP 2 promotion to Final

On Mar 10, 2016 02:04, "Mustafa Al-Bassam via bitcoin-dev" < bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > > >A hard-fork BIP requires adoption from the entire Bitcoin economy, > particularly including those selling desirable goods and services in > exchange for bitcoin payments, as well as Bitco

Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP 2 promotion to Final

On Mar 10, 2016 16:51, "Mustafa Al-Bassam via bitcoin-dev" < bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > I think in general this sounds like a good definition for a hard-fork > becoming active. But I can envision a situation where someone will try > to be annoying about it and point to one ins

Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP 2 promotion to Final

On 10/03/16 15:59, Jorge Timón wrote: > > > On Mar 10, 2016 16:51, "Mustafa Al-Bassam via bitcoin-dev" > > wrote: > > > I think in general this sounds like a good definition for a hard-fork > > becoming active. But I can envision a situation where so

Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP 2 promotion to Final

By the way, on that basis it might be a good idea to introduce an extra status called "deployed" to indicate when a hard fork has reached a super-majority and is being used by the economy in practice, but not the whole economy. On 10/03/16 16:28, Mustafa Al-Bassam wrote: > > > On 10/03/16 15:59, J

Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP 2 promotion to Final

On Thursday, March 10, 2016 2:02:15 PM Mustafa Al-Bassam wrote: > On 10/03/16 00:53, Luke Dashjr wrote: > > On Thursday, March 10, 2016 12:29:16 AM Mustafa Al-Bassam wrote: > >>> A hard-fork BIP requires adoption from the entire Bitcoin economy, > >>> particularly including those selling desirable

Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP 2 promotion to Final

On Mar 10, 2016 17:28, "Mustafa Al-Bassam" wrote: > > The fact that it takes very little time and effort to prevent a BIP from reaching final status, means that in an base of millions of users it's guaranteed that some disgruntled or bored person out there will attack it, even if it's for the lulz

[bitcoin-dev] BIP75 - Out of Band Address Exchange

Hi everyone, Our BIP (officially proposed on March 1) has tentatively been assigned number 75. Also, the title has been changed to "Out of Band Address Exchange using Payment Protocol Encryption" to be more accurate. We thought it would be good to take this opportunity to add some optional fields