Tier Nolan [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2015-08-19 📝 Original message:On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at ...

📅 Original date posted:2015-08-19
📝 Original message:On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 2:15 PM, Btc Drak via bitcoin-dev <
bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

>
> What problem am I missing if we just mask of the offending bits. For my
> own project which uses auxpow (and thus has weird nVersion), I also used
> the bitmasking method to get rid of auxpow version bits before making the
> standard integer comparisons to deploy BIP66 using IsSuperMajority():
>
> if ((block.nVersion & 0xff) >= 4 && CBlockIndex::IsSuperMajority(...))
> { //...}
>

What if version number 257 is used in the future? That would appear to be
a version 1 block and fail the test.
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