{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","author_name":"npub17ty4mumkv43w8wtt0xsz2jypck0gvw0j8xrcg6tpea25z2nh7meqf4qgyd","author_url":"https://nostr.ae/npub17ty4mumkv43w8wtt0xsz2jypck0gvw0j8xrcg6tpea25z2nh7meqf4qgyd","provider_name":"njump","provider_url":"https://nostr.ae","html":"📅 Original date posted:2014-07-18\n📝 Original message:The rationale doesn't seem to apply to rule #4, what's so special about\nthat one?\n\nAlthough I agree not having to support all of DER is nice, in practice I\nthink all implementations do and libraries to parse DER are widespread.\nGiven that the last time we modified tx rules without bumping version\nnumbers we managed to break the only functioning iPhone client, I've become\na big fan of backwards compatibility: seems the default choice should be to\npreserve compatibility over technical niceness until the old versions have\nbeen fully phased out.\n-------------- next part --------------\nAn HTML attachment was scrubbed...\nURL: \u003chttp://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/attachments/20140718/bf4b4f23/attachment.html\u003e"}