📅 Original date posted:2017-05-24
📝 Original message:Gregory Maxwell via bitcoin-dev <bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org>
writes:
> Based on how fast we saw segwit adoption, why is the BIP149 timeout so
> far in the future?
>
> It seems to me that it could be six months after release and hit the
> kind of density required to make a stable transition.
Agreed, I would suggest 16th December, 2017 (otherwise, it should be
16th January 2018; during EOY holidays seems a bad idea).
This means this whole debacle has delayed segwit exactly 1 (2) month(s)
beyond what we'd have if it used BIP8 in the first place.
Cheers,
Rusty.
Rusty Russell [ARCHIVE] /
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2023-06-07 18:01:46
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