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On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Gavin Andresen <gavinandresen@gmail.com> 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
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