From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Adam Back <adam@cypherspace.org>
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Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2015 09:34:19 +0930
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Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Let's deploy BIP65 CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY!
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Adam Back <adam@cypherspace.org> writes:
> I think from discussion with Gavin sometime during the montreal
> scaling bitcoin workshop, XT maybe willing to make things easy and
> adapt what it's doing.  For example in relation to versionBits Gavin
> said he'd be willing to update XT with an updated/improved
> versionBits, for example.
>
> It seems more sensible to do what is simple and clean and have both
> core do that, and XT follow if there is no particular philosophy
> debate on a given technical topic.  This seems a quite constructive
> approach.

That too, but let's not break existing software.  This proposal allows
that, and is trivial.

Cheers,
Rusty.