On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 3:49 PM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxw...@gmail.com> wrote: > You misunderstand what BIP_0034 is doing— it's not gauging consensus, > it's making sure that the change is safe to enforce. This is a subtle > but important difference.
Sounds reasonable. The change in BIP-34 doesn't cause old client to reject the main chain. The increase to the maximum block size would be rejected by old clients, so is different. Adding new opcodes (as long as they act like a NOP on success) also doesn't cause a disagreement about what is the longest chain, in the end. Miners might end up mining chains which are guaranteed to be orphaned at worst. > Bitcoin is not a democracy— it quite intentionally uses the consensus > mechanism _only_ the one thing that nodes can not autonomously and > interdependently validate (the ordering of transactions). So, how is max block size to be decided then? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 and get the hardware for free! Learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
