<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><author_name>npub1f2nvlx49er5c7sqa43src6ssyp6snd4qwvtkwm5avc2l84cs84esecrwet</author_name><author_url>https://nostr.ae/npub1f2nvlx49er5c7sqa43src6ssyp6snd4qwvtkwm5avc2l84cs84esecrwet</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://nostr.ae</provider_url><html>📅 Original date posted:2016-09-09&#xA;📝 Original message:On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 12:58 AM, Peter Todd &lt;pete at petertodd.org&gt; wrote:&#xA;&gt; Good to do this sooner rather than later, as alert propagation on the P2P&#xA;&gt; network is going to continue to get less reliable as nodes upgrade to software&#xA;&#xA;Yes, this was one of my motivations for doing this soon.&#xA;&#xA;It would only require about 2 LOC to have Bitcoin Core vomit out a&#xA;blob containing the final alert to any old protocol version peers that&#xA;connect.  I don&#39;t know how other people would feel about that, but I&#xA;wouldn&#39;t mind implementing it, and it would greatly improve the&#xA;likelihood that they continue to to get once propagation of it is&#xA;gone. This could be left in the codebase for a couple years or until&#xA;other changes made those old versions p2p incompatible for other&#xA;reasons.</html></oembed>