Marcel Jamin [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2017-04-18 📝 Original message:Probably a bad idea for ...

📅 Original date posted:2017-04-18
📝 Original message:Probably a bad idea for various reasons, but tagging (fee paying)
transactions with info about the capabilities of the node that created
it might be interesting? Might be useful to gauge economic support for
certain upgrades, especially if excluding long transaction chains,
etc. In the very least it would be a far better indicator than simply
counting reachable nodes.

On 17 April 2017 at 17:50, Erik Aronesty via bitcoin-dev
<bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> If users added a signal to OP_RETURN, might it be possible to tag all
> validated input addresses with that signal.
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> Then a node can activate a new feature after the percentage of tagged input
> addresses reaches a certain level within a certain period of time?
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> This could be used in addition to a flag day to trigger activation of a
> feature with some reassurance of user uptake.
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