It's possible to let the difficulty linearly drop as the solvetime
goes beyond some limit (credit AS). If the limit is greater than any
delay in the past it could be backwards-compatible.
A simple daily-rolling average DA like BCH is probably the best option
if a faster DA is ever needed.
As a
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On Thu, Dec 06, 2018 at 11:57:09AM -0500, Russell O'Connor via bitcoin-dev
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> One more item to consider is "signature covers witness weight".
>
> While signing the witness weight doesn't completely eliminate witness
> malleability (of the kind that can cause grief for compact blocks), it
The current proposal is that a 64-byte signature will be used for the default
“signing all” sighash, and 65-byte for other sighash types. The space saved
will allow a few more txs in a block, so I think it worths doing. However, this
also makes witness weight estimation more difficult in
