Yes, exactly. That's the point. As you well know I think the whole
soft-fork mechanism is wrong and should not be used. If the rules change,
your node is *supposed* to end up on a chain fork and trigger an alert to
you, that's pretty much the whole purpose of Bitcoin's design. Undermining
that security model is problematic.
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 12:38 PM, Peter Todd <p...@petertodd.org> wrote:
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> Peter Todd <p...@petertodd.org> wrote:
> >On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 10:52:31AM +0100, Mike Hearn wrote:
> >> For block 0x11 again shall there be a separate code for "block is
> >from the
> >> future"? We don't want to lose the nVersion field to people just
> >using it
> >> for nonsense, so does it make sense to reject blocks that claim to be
> >v2 or
> >> v3?
> >
> >That would prevent us from using nVersion as a soft-forking mechanism.
>
> Actually, that statement didn't go far enough: rejecting blocks with
> nVersions that you don't expect is a hard fork.
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