I highly recommend you read the excellent thread on soft fork risks at https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2015-December/012014.html and respond there instead of getting off topic for this thread.
Matt On 10/16/16 16:42, Tom Zander via bitcoin-dev wrote: > On Sunday, 16 October 2016 12:35:58 CEST Gavin Andresen wrote: >> On Sun, Oct 16, 2016 at 10:58 AM, Tom Zander via bitcoin-dev < >> >> bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: >>> The fallow period sounds waaaay to short. I suggest 2 months at minimum >>> since anyone that wants to be safe needs to upgrade. >> >> I asked a lot of businesses and individuals how long it would take them to >> upgrade to a new release over the last year or two. >> >> Nobody said it would take them more than two weeks. > > The question you asked them was likely about the block size. The main > difference is that SPV users do not need to update after BIP109, but they do > need to have a new wallet when SegWit transactions are being sent to them. > > This upgrade affects also end users, not just businesses etc. > > Personally, I'd say that 2 months is even too fast. > > _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing list bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
