I will continue to update the list on the latest developments as I see them. That's all I can do.
So the latest circus act is apparently a technical decision made by a coin toss. The rationale being that this discussion on using block height vs a mix of block height and MTP was bikeshedding all along. Here's a short abridged timeline on the views on block height vs MTP of the organizer (Jeremy Rubin) of that coin toss: March 8th: "I have a preference for fully height based design, correct." https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/21377#issuecomment-802396191 March 24th: "There are two NACKs, one (luke-jr) against MTP, one (jeremyrubin) against height.” https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2021-March/018715.html April 6th: "The following folks in the meeting agreed to abide by the flip.... jeremyrubin" https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2021-April/018742.html April 7th: "So @achow101 is correct that it is not the coin flip which made the decision." https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/21393#issuecomment-815388126 Please note on March 24th the only person NACKing block height in that meeting was Jeremy Rubin. He has gone from preferring block height, to NACKing block height, to thinking this discussion all along was bikeshedding and worthy of a coin flip to admitting the coin flip was theater. All of this makes me extremely uncomfortable and I dread to think what individuals and businesses all over the world who have plans to utilize and build on Taproot are making of all of this. As an individual I would like to distance myself from this circus. I will try to keep the mailing list informed though of further developments re Speedy Trial in Core or progress on an alternative client. There are two StackExchange answers here on block height vs MTP, one by David Harding and one by myself for those that are interested in the technical considerations. https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/103854/should-block-height-or-mtp-or-a-mixture-of-both-be-used-in-a-soft-fork-activatio -- Michael Folkson Email: michaelfolk...@gmail.com Keybase: michaelfolkson PGP: 43ED C999 9F85 1D40 EAF4 9835 92D6 0159 214C FEE3 _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing list bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
