Re: [bitcoin-dev] Straight Flag Day (Height) Taproot Activation

2021-03-08 Thread Eric Voskuil via bitcoin-dev
One should not assume that those trying to avoid a chain split are against Taproot. There is a concerning widespread misperception in the community at large that soft forks are inherently “backward compatible”. To many people this seems to mean that, even without hash power enforcement, acti

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Straight Flag Day (Height) Taproot Activation

2021-03-08 Thread Jorge Timón via bitcoin-dev
Concept nack. This has no advantage over bip8(true). Bip9(false) is just bip9. Thr only reasonable argument against bip8(true) is "some people may do bip8(false) instead", which is a stypid argument applyable to any activation method. People against taproot should want code to forbid its activatio

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Yet another Taproot activation logic

2021-03-08 Thread Carlo Spiller via bitcoin-dev
Hi Ariel Thanks for your reply with the link to the SMA proposal, which I had missed previoulsy. It is indeed very similar. I see that Speedy trial is currently gaining broad support, which is good. I think my proposal with the threshold set to 51% instead of 80% to change LOT=false to LOT=t