Luke Dashjr [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2017-06-19 📝 Original message:To ease the transition to ...
📅 Original date posted:2017-06-19
📝 Original message:To ease the transition to BIP148 and to minimise risks in the event miners
choose to perform a chain split attack, at least Bitcoin Knots will be using
the temporary service bit (1 << 27) to indicate BIP148 support.
Once the transition is complete, this will no longer be necessary, and the bit
will be (manually) returned for reuse.
I encourage other software implementing BIP148 (both full and light nodes) to
set and use this service bit to avoid network partitioning risks.
Luke
📝 Original message:To ease the transition to BIP148 and to minimise risks in the event miners
choose to perform a chain split attack, at least Bitcoin Knots will be using
the temporary service bit (1 << 27) to indicate BIP148 support.
Once the transition is complete, this will no longer be necessary, and the bit
will be (manually) returned for reuse.
I encourage other software implementing BIP148 (both full and light nodes) to
set and use this service bit to avoid network partitioning risks.
Luke