Hello all, We're getting ready for Bitcoin Core's 0.13.1 release - the first one to include segregated witness (BIP 141, 143, 144, 145) for Bitcoin mainnet, after being extensively tested on testnet and in other software. Following the BIP9 recommendation [1] to set the versionbits start time a month in the future and discussion in the last IRC meeting [2], I propose we set BIP 141's start time to November 15, 2016, 0:00 UTC (unix time 1479168000).
Note that this is just a lower bound on the time when the versionbits signalling can begin. Activation on the network requires: (1) This date to pass (2) A full retarget window of 2016 blocks with 95% signalling the version bit (bit 1 for BIP141) (3) A fallow period consisting of another 2016 blocks. [1] https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0009.mediawiki [2] http://www.erisian.com.au/meetbot/bitcoin-core-dev/2016/bitcoin-core-dev.2016-10-13-19.04.log.html Cheers, -- Pieter _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing list bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
