On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 01:48:40AM +0000, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 12:58 AM, Peter Todd <p...@petertodd.org> wrote: > > Good to do this sooner rather than later, as alert propagation on the P2P > > network is going to continue to get less reliable as nodes upgrade to > > software > > Yes, this was one of my motivations for doing this soon. > > It would only require about 2 LOC to have Bitcoin Core vomit out a > blob containing the final alert to any old protocol version peers that > connect. I don't know how other people would feel about that, but I > wouldn't mind implementing it, and it would greatly improve the > likelihood that they continue to to get once propagation of it is > gone. This could be left in the codebase for a couple years or until > other changes made those old versions p2p incompatible for other > reasons.
I think that's a good idea, and it's a simple way to document that final alert as well. -- https://petertodd.org 'peter'[:-1]@petertodd.org
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