📅 Original date posted:2015-08-28
📝 Original message:On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 1:36 AM, Btc Drak via bitcoin-dev
<bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 10:15 PM, Matt Whitlock <bip at mattwhitlock.name> wrote:
>> However, this proposal currently fails to answer a very important question:
>>
>> • What is the mechanism for activation of the new consensus rule? It is when a certain percentage of the blocks mined in a 2016-block retargeting period contain valid block-size votes?
>
> I chose not to address hard fork methodology at this stage because I
> wanted to focus on the main algorithm. There are a number of options
> open to us for deployment including a simple fixed activation (which I
> think is feasible because there is a a lot of awareness and the
> industry shows they are willing to rally around a single proposal). If
> there are any strong preferences, I can add a deployment section
> although I think it's less interesting until we forge a clear way
> forward with what blocksize proposal to use.
Can we please not discuss an ideal deployment mechanism in 4+
different proposals and discuss the same deployment mechanism (for all
proposals) in BIP99's thread instead?
Jorge Timón [ARCHIVE] /
npub1fx…cl2d8
2023-06-07 17:37:59
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