<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><author_name>npub1g6vxlp4e0nyhs2dqxxcryztyf5f5hyuaq93nw4r87zcnv0sdsa0qqsl5wd</author_name><author_url>https://nostr.ae/npub1g6vxlp4e0nyhs2dqxxcryztyf5f5hyuaq93nw4r87zcnv0sdsa0qqsl5wd</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://nostr.ae</provider_url><html>📅 Original date posted:2016-11-16&#xA;📝 Original message:On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 1:58 PM, Eric Voskuil via bitcoin-dev &lt;&#xA;bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org&gt; wrote:&#xA;&#xA;&gt; Are checkpoints good now? Are hard forks okay now?&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&#xA;I think that at least one checkpoint should be included.  The assumption is&#xA;that no 50k re-orgs will happen, and that assumption should be directly&#xA;checked.&#xA;&#xA;Checkpointing only needs to happen during the headers-first part of the&#xA;download.&#xA;&#xA;If the block at the BIP-65 height is checkpointed, then the comparisons for&#xA;the other ones are automatically correct.  They are unnecessary, since the&#xA;checkpoint protects all earlier block, but many people would like to be&#xA;able to verify the legacy chain.&#xA;&#xA;This makes the change a soft-fork rather than a hard fork.  Chains that&#xA;don&#39;t go through the checkpoint are rejected but no new chains are allowed.&#xA;-------------- next part --------------&#xA;An HTML attachment was scrubbed...&#xA;URL: &lt;http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/attachments/20161116/da3702fc/attachment.html&gt;</html></oembed>