Why Nostr? What is Njump?
2023-06-07 18:00:12
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Ryan Grant [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: šŸ“… Original date posted:2017-04-15 šŸ“ Original message:On Sat, Apr 15, 2017 at ...

šŸ“… Original date posted:2017-04-15
šŸ“ Original message:On Sat, Apr 15, 2017 at 8:42 AM, Mark Friedenbach via bitcoin-dev
<bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> The alternative [Greg presents] (new BIP bit) has the clear downside
> of not triggering BIP141 activation, and therefore not enabling the
> new consensus rules on already deployed full nodes. BIP148 is making
> an explicit choice to favor dragging along those users which have
> upgraded to BIP141 support over those miners who have failed to
> upgrade.

A proposal from yesterday would separate this concern; though not
retroactively. One way to name this proposal would be "Catch-All
Segwit Activation".

"extended BIP9 activation of segwit, for legacy nodes"
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2017-April/014160.html

If this release valve exists, then discussions (such as this thread)
can get back to focusing on finding the safest incentive-compatible
transitions, with time improving the situation instead of making it worse.
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