On Friday, 14 April 2017 09:56:31 CEST Gregory Maxwell via bitcoin-dev wrote: > Segwit was carefully engineered so that older unmodified miners could > continue operating _completely_ without interruption after segwit > activates.
> They [Older nodes] can > upgrade to it [segwit] on their own schedule. The only risk > non-participating > miners take after segwit activation is that if someone else mines an > invalid block they would extend it, This is false, a segwit transaction to the miner you describe is an "everyone can spend" transaction, and as such a miner that does not validate the segregated area in a post-segwit world will be able to create blocks that will not validate for segwit miners by including a transaction that spends a SW tx. This would then lead to a chain-fork as the SW miners reject it and the non- SW miners continue to mine on it. -- Tom Zander Blog: https://zander.github.io Vlog: https://vimeo.com/channels/tomscryptochannel _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing list bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
