> I guess the same could be said about the softfork flavoured SW implementation
No, segregated witness https://bitcoin.org/en/bitcoin-core/capacity-increases-faq is a soft-fork maybe loosely similar to P2SH - particularly it is backwards and forwards compatible by design. These firm forks have the advantage over hard forks that there is no left-over weak chain that is at risk of losing money (because it becomes a consensus rule that old transactions are blocked). There is also another type of fork a firm hard fork that can do the same but for format changes that are not possible with a soft-fork. Extension blocks show a more general backwards and forwards compatible soft-fork is also possible. Segregated witness is simpler. Adam On 30 December 2015 at 13:57, Marcel Jamin via bitcoin-dev <[email protected]> wrote: > I guess the same could be said about the softfork flavoured SW > implementation. In any case, the strategy pattern helps with code structure > in situations like this. > > 2015-12-30 14:29 GMT+01:00 Jonathan Toomim via bitcoin-dev > <[email protected]>: _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
