Pieter Wuille [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2012-02-28 📝 Original message:On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at ...

📅 Original date posted:2012-02-28
📝 Original message:On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 01:23:01PM -0500, Luke-Jr wrote:
> Has it been verified to make even rocconor's complicated transaction-based
> version impossible?

Yes, he tried it on testnet against a patched node.

> > The purpose of this mail is asking for support for adding this rule to
> > the protocol rules. If there is consensus this rule is the solution, I
> > hope pools and miners can agree to update their nodes without lengthy
> > coinbase-flagging procedure that would only delay a solution. So, who
> > is in favor?
>
> Can we do this in two steps? First, prefer blocks which don't break the rule;
> once 55%+ are confirmed to have upgraded, then it is safe to treat it as a
> hard rule.

I prefer to avoid this if possible, as it increases the size of the patch
significantly. In particular, it would require the discouragement-system to
be backported to whatever versions pools are running. The current proposal
only requires adding 6 lines of code.

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Pieter