Received: from sog-mx-4.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com ([172.29.43.194] helo=mx.sourceforge.net) by sfs-ml-3.v29.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1R3x7q-0001GL-06 for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Wed, 14 Sep 2011 21:36:10 +0000 Received-SPF: pass (sog-mx-4.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com: domain of gmail.com designates 209.85.216.175 as permitted sender) client-ip=209.85.216.175; envelope-from=ampedal@gmail.com; helo=mail-qy0-f175.google.com; Received: from mail-qy0-f175.google.com ([209.85.216.175]) by sog-mx-4.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtps (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) id 1R3x7p-0001H8-7E for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Wed, 14 Sep 2011 21:36:09 +0000 Received: by qyk10 with SMTP id 10so4562706qyk.13 for ; Wed, 14 Sep 2011 14:36:03 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.229.65.147 with SMTP id j19mr318397qci.1.1316036163443; Wed, 14 Sep 2011 14:36:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.229.91.68 with HTTP; Wed, 14 Sep 2011 14:36:03 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <4E6F83C3.9020108@jerviss.org> Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 17:36:03 -0400 Message-ID: From: Alex Waters To: Gavin Andresen Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam-Score: -1.1 (-) X-Spam-Report: Spam Filtering performed by mx.sourceforge.net. See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. -1.5 SPF_CHECK_PASS SPF reports sender host as permitted sender for sender-domain 0.0 FREEMAIL_FROM Sender email is commonly abused enduser mail provider (ampedal[at]gmail.com) -0.0 SPF_PASS SPF: sender matches SPF record -0.1 DKIM_VALID_AU Message has a valid DKIM or DK signature from author's domain 0.1 DKIM_SIGNED Message has a DKIM or DK signature, not necessarily valid -0.1 DKIM_VALID Message has at least one valid DKIM or DK signature 0.5 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list X-Headers-End: 1R3x7p-0001H8-7E Cc: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Difficulty adjustment / time issues X-BeenThere: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 21:36:10 -0000 On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Gavin Andresen w= rote: > What do other people think? =A0I think it is too high risk for too > little benefit and shouldn't be done until we have a really compelling > reason to introduce a forking change. Could we bundle this and potential future blockchain-splitting changes - to implement them in a major release (down the road)? Or save them for when they are very necessary? TL;DR shelf it until needed, have it written just in case. -Alex