[bitcoin-core-dev] Bitcoin Core 0.15.0 release candidate 1 available

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[bitcoin-dev] Fwd: [Lightning-dev] Lightning in the setting of blockchain hardforks

-- Forwarded message -- From: Christian Decker Date: Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 5:39 AM Subject: Re: [Lightning-dev] Lightning in the setting of blockchain hardforks To: Martin Schwarz , lightning-...@lists.linuxfoundation.org Hi

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Fwd: [Lightning-dev] Lightning in the setting of blockchain hardforks

Some notes: Hardforks like Bitcoin ABC without a malleability fix are very unlikely to have payment channels, so the problem does not exist for those. The designers of a hardfork which does have a malleability fix will probably know about payment channels, so they can just build a replay

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Fwd: [Lightning-dev] Lightning in the setting of blockchain hardforks

Couldn't scripts like this have a standardized "hardfork unroll" mechanism, where if a hardfork is activated and signaled to its clients, then those commitments that are only meant for their original chain can be reversed and undone just on the hardfork? Then the users involved would just send an