<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><author_name>npub1m230cem2yh3mtdzkg32qhj73uytgkyg5ylxsu083n3tpjnajxx4qqa2np2</author_name><author_url>https://nostr.ae/npub1m230cem2yh3mtdzkg32qhj73uytgkyg5ylxsu083n3tpjnajxx4qqa2np2</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://nostr.ae</provider_url><html>📅 Original date posted:2016-05-09&#xA;📝 Original message:-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----&#xA;Hash: SHA512&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;On 9 May 2016 07:32:59 GMT-04:00, Tom via bitcoin-dev &lt;bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org&gt; wrote:&#xA;&gt;On Monday 09 May 2016 10:43:02 Gregory Maxwell wrote:&#xA;&gt;&gt; Service bits are not generally a good mechanism for negating optional&#xA;&gt;&gt; peer-local parameters.&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt;Service bits are exactly the right solution to indicate additional p2p&#xA;&gt;feature-support.&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&gt; [It&#39;s a little disconcerting that you appear to be maintaining a fork&#xA;&gt;&gt; and are unaware of this.]&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt;ehm...&#xA;&#xA;Can you please explain why you moved the above part of gmaxwell&#39;s reply to here, when previously it was right after:&#xA;&#xA;&gt;&gt; &gt; Wait, you didn&#39;t steal the variable length encoding from an&#xA;&gt;existing&#xA;&gt;&gt; &gt; standard and you programmed a new one?&#xA;&gt;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&gt; This is one of the two variable length encodings used for years in&#xA;&gt;&gt; Bitcoin Core. This is just the first time it&#39;s shown up in a BIP.&#xA;&#xA;here?&#xA;&#xA;Editing gmaxwells reply like that changes the tone of the message significantly.&#xA;-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----&#xA;&#xA;iQE9BAEBCgAnIBxQZXRlciBUb2RkIDxwZXRlQHBldGVydG9kZC5vcmc+BQJXMJNd&#xA;AAoJEGOZARBE6K+yz4MH/0fQNM8SQdT7a1zljOSJW17ZLs6cEwVXZc/fOtvrNnOa&#xA;CkzXqylPrdT+BWBhPOwDlrzRa/2w5JAJDHRFoR8ZEidasxNDuSfhT3PwulBxmBqs&#xA;qoXhg0ujzRv9736vKENzMI4y2HbfHmqOrlLSZrlk8zqBGmlp1fMqVjFriQN66dnV&#xA;6cYFVyMVz0x/e4mXw8FigSQxkDAJ6gnfSInecQuZLT7H4g2xomIs6kQbqULHAylS&#xA;sFaK4uXy7Vr/sgBbitEQPDHGwywRoA+7EhExb2XpvL6hdyQbL1G1i6SPxGkwKg7R&#xA;MAuBPku/FraGo+qfcaA8R7eYKmyP4qZfZly317Aoo6Q=&#xA;=NtSN&#xA;-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----</html></oembed>