Gregory Maxwell [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2016-09-09 📝 Original message:On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at ...
📅 Original date posted:2016-09-09
📝 Original message:On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 12:58 AM, Peter Todd <pete at petertodd.org> wrote:
> Good to do this sooner rather than later, as alert propagation on the P2P
> network is going to continue to get less reliable as nodes upgrade to software
Yes, this was one of my motivations for doing this soon.
It would only require about 2 LOC to have Bitcoin Core vomit out a
blob containing the final alert to any old protocol version peers that
connect. I don't know how other people would feel about that, but I
wouldn't mind implementing it, and it would greatly improve the
likelihood that they continue to to get once propagation of it is
gone. This could be left in the codebase for a couple years or until
other changes made those old versions p2p incompatible for other
reasons.
📝 Original message:On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 12:58 AM, Peter Todd <pete at petertodd.org> wrote:
> Good to do this sooner rather than later, as alert propagation on the P2P
> network is going to continue to get less reliable as nodes upgrade to software
Yes, this was one of my motivations for doing this soon.
It would only require about 2 LOC to have Bitcoin Core vomit out a
blob containing the final alert to any old protocol version peers that
connect. I don't know how other people would feel about that, but I
wouldn't mind implementing it, and it would greatly improve the
likelihood that they continue to to get once propagation of it is
gone. This could be left in the codebase for a couple years or until
other changes made those old versions p2p incompatible for other
reasons.