{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","author_name":"npub1ss2s89s938xfh3zzz0j2mhp25tlrlcrj0duljr0ne0t8v2r4cv0q5e0am4","author_url":"https://nostr.ae/npub1ss2s89s938xfh3zzz0j2mhp25tlrlcrj0duljr0ne0t8v2r4cv0q5e0am4","provider_name":"njump","provider_url":"https://nostr.ae","html":"📅 Original date posted:2016-11-15\n📝 Original message:Just want to clarify two points:\n\nThis change has not yet appeared in any released software (but I assume it\nwill be in the next release, 0.14.0).\n\nI agree that the performance optimization is not the point of this change;\nI can modify the BIP draft to de-emphasize that further (perhaps remove\nmention of it entirely).\n\nOn Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 1:47 PM, Eric Voskuil \u003ceric at voskuil.org\u003e wrote:\n\n\u003e NACK\n\u003e\n\u003e Horrible precedent (hardcoding rule changes based on the assumption that\n\u003e large forks indicate a catastrophic failure), extremely poor process\n\u003e (already shipped, now the discussion), and not even a material performance\n\u003e optimization (the checks are avoidable once activated until a sufficiently\n\u003e deep reorg deactivates them).\n\u003e\n\u003e e\n\u003e\n\u003e On Nov 14, 2016, at 10:17 AM, Suhas Daftuar via bitcoin-dev \u003c\n\u003e bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org\u003e wrote:\n\u003e\n\u003e Hi,\n\u003e\n\u003e Recently Bitcoin Core merged a simplification to the consensus rules\n\u003e surrounding deployment of BIPs 34, 66, and 65 (https://github.com/bitcoin/\n\u003e bitcoin/pull/8391), and though the change is a minor one, I thought it\n\u003e was worth documenting the rationale in a BIP for posterity.\n\u003e\n\u003e Here's the abstract:\n\u003e\n\u003e Prior soft forks (BIP 34, BIP 65, and BIP 66) were activated via miner\n\u003e signaling in block version numbers. Now that the chain has long since\n\u003e passed the blocks at which those consensus rules have triggered, we can (as\n\u003e a simplification and optimization) replace the trigger mechanism by caching\n\u003e the block heights at which those consensus rules became enforced.\n\u003e\n\u003e The full draft can be found here:\n\u003e\n\u003e https://github.com/sdaftuar/bips/blob/buried-deployments/\n\u003e bip-buried-deployments.mediawiki\n\u003e\n\u003e _______________________________________________\n\u003e bitcoin-dev mailing list\n\u003e bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org\n\u003e https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev\n\u003e\n\u003e\n-------------- next part --------------\nAn HTML attachment was scrubbed...\nURL: \u003chttp://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/attachments/20161115/7b2641ce/attachment.html\u003e"}