Tier Nolan via bitcoin-dev <[email protected]> writes: > On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 9:19 PM, Rusty Russell <[email protected]> > wrote: >> You need a timeout: an ancient (non-mining, thus undetectable) node >> should never fork itself off the network because someone reused a failed >> BIP bit. >> > > I meant if the 2nd bit was part of the BIP. One of the 2 bits is "FOR" and > the other is "AGAINST". If against hits 25%, then it is deemed a failure. > > The 2nd bit wouldn't be used normally. This means that proposals can be > killed quickly if they are obviously going to fail.
This could be added if we approach one failed soft fork every 5 weeks, I guess (or it could be just for specific soft forks). Cheers, Rusty. _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
