Re: [bitcoin-dev] Planned Obsolescence

I agree that finding the right line is difficult and purposefully crippling (too strong a term?) the software is not necessarily the best way to encourage long term adoption. For example, I ran version 0.3.x from July/August 2010 for several years on a miner without upgrading to anything higher

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Planned Obsolescence

On 12/14/2016 07:38 PM, Juan Garavaglia via bitcoin-dev wrote: For reasons I am unable to determine a significant number of node operators do not upgrade their clients. I almost did not update to 0.13.0 because the test suite was failing due to python errors. How to fix them was posted on

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Planned Obsolescence

One thing which hasn't been addressed yet in this thread is developer centralization. Unlike other applications we want to ensure that it's not only possible for users to refuse an upgrade, but easy. While this by no means lessens the retirement that users run up to date software for security

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Planned Obsolescence

I assume this has been well discussed in at some point in the Bitcoin community, so I apologize if I'm repeating old ideas. Problem exploitable nodes: It is plausible that people running these versions of bitcoind may not be applying patches. Thus, these nodes may be vulnerable to known exploits.

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Planned Obsolescence

Perhaps if there were a message that would nag your stdout or log output letting you know there's a new version available, or N more versions available and that you might be missing out on X security patches, Y protocol improvements, depending on how far back you are, you'd be tempted to upgrade,

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Planned Obsolescence

On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 4:38 AM, Juan Garavaglia via bitcoin-dev wrote: > Older node versions may generate issues because some upgrades will make > several of the nodes running older protocol versions obsolete and or > incompatible. There may be other hard

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Planned Obsolescence

Maybe there are still some advantages but I don't know why this is not considered as a major issue by the bitcoin community for the future and why this looks to be never discussed: - the size of the bitcoin network in terms of full nodes is ridiculous and this is continuously decreasing, we