.. if they are still
manipulated now then its time for us to give up on helping them see the light
and instead let them learn the hard way.
Cheers,
Praxeology Guy
Original Message ----
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Flag day activation of segwit
Local Time: March 13, 2017 5:18 PM
UTC Time:
>time >= 1506816000 && time <= 1510704000 && !IsWitnessEnabled()
This has a different start time from the first post.
>if (pindex->GetMedianTimePast() >= 1538352000 &&
pindex->GetMedianTimePast() <= 1510704000 ...
Thanks,
--Nick
On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 4:36 AM, shaolinfry via bitcoin-dev <
endeavour, which is the basis of the strong
assumption of Bitcoin that PoW/revenue incentives will keep miners honest. If
that assumption is broken, Bitcoin has bigger problems.
Original Message
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Flag day activation of segwit
From: nickodell
The problem
From: l...@dashjr.org
On Sunday, March 12, 2017 3:50:27 PM shaolinfry via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> // mandatory segwit activation between Oct 1st 2017 and Nov 15th 2017
> inclusive if (pindex->GetMedianTimePast() >= 1538352000 &&
> pindex->GetMedianTimePast() <= 1510704000 &&
>
That's simply a 51% attack choosing to censor transactions. We could do
that today, ban all transactions that aren't approved by the PBoC.
You respond to that with a PoW hardfork, or by finding some way to prop up
/ subsidize non-censorship miners.
On Mar 13, 2017 5:59 AM, "Nick ODell via
The problem with modifying Bitcoin to work around community norms is that
it's a two-way street. Other people can do it too.
Let me propose a counter-fork, or a "Double UASF." This is also a BIP9
fork, and it uses, say, bit 2. starttime is 1489449600, and the end time is
1506812400. It enforces
On Sunday, March 12, 2017 3:50:27 PM shaolinfry via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> // mandatory segwit activation between Oct 1st 2017 and Nov 15th 2017
> inclusive if (pindex->GetMedianTimePast() >= 1538352000 &&
> pindex->GetMedianTimePast() <= 1510704000 &&
> !IsWitnessEnabled(pindex->pprev,
Before setting a flag day, I think we should get written cooperation agreements
from the largest economic players in Bitcoin. This would include:
There isn't a flag day to set. If the major economic organs like exchanges run
the BIP, non-signalling miners simply wont get paid (starting October
I recently posted about so called "user activated soft forks" and received a
lot of feedback. Much of this was how such methodologies could be applied to
segwit which appears to have fallen under the miner veto category I explained
in my original proposal, where there is apparently a lot of
