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Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2015 06:31:37 -0800
From: Peter Todd <pete@petertodd.org>
To: Jonathan Toomim <j@toom.im>, bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org
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Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] An implementation of BIP102 as a softfork.
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On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 06:19:55AM -0800, Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 05:29:05AM -0800, Jonathan Toomim via bitcoin-dev=
 wrote:
> > As a first impression, I think this proposal is intellectually interest=
ing, but crufty and hackish and should never actually be deployed. Writing =
code for Bitcoin in a future in which we have deployed a few generalized so=
ftforks this way sounds terrifying.
>=20
> <snip>
>=20
> > It might be possible to make that a bit simpler with recursion, or by d=
oing subsequent generalized softforks in a way that doesn't have multi-leve=
ls-deep block-within-a-block-within-a-block stuff. Still: ugh.
>=20
> Your fear is misplaced: it's trivial to avoid recursion with a bit of
> planning.
>=20
> For instance, if Bitcoin was redesigned to incorporate the forced fork

Actually, a better name is probably "forced soft-fork", making this
clear we're using the soft-fork mechanism to force everyone to upgrade.

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