<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><author_name>npub1jjaydndmznp5g07v9cf83dq6667rdgk4j52f662qv5k6klsky53sruchtw</author_name><author_url>https://nostr.ae/npub1jjaydndmznp5g07v9cf83dq6667rdgk4j52f662qv5k6klsky53sruchtw</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://nostr.ae</provider_url><html>📅 Original date posted:2015-12-09&#xA;📝 Original message:On 12/08/2015 10:12 AM, Gavin Andresen via bitcoin-dev wrote:&#xA;&gt; Why segwitness as a soft fork? Stuffing the segwitness merkle tree in&#xA;&gt; the coinbase is messy and will just complicate consensus-critical code&#xA;&gt; (as opposed to making the right side of the merkle tree in&#xA;&gt; block.version=5 blocks the segwitness data).&#xA;Agreed. I thought the rule was no contentious hark forks. It seems&#xA;hardly anyone opposes this change and there seems to be widespread&#xA;agreement that the hardfork version would be much cleaner.</html></oembed>