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On Wednesday, December 30, 2015 4:35:17 PM Tomas via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> In an attempt to reduce developer centralization, and to reduce the risk
> of forks introduced by implementation other than bitcoin-core, I have
> drafted a BIP to support changes to the protocol from different
> implementations.
The premises in Motivation are false. BIPs are required to have a reference
implementation, but that implementation need not necessarily be for Bitcoin
Core specifically.
The specification itself looks like an inefficient and bloaty reinvention of
version bits.
Luke
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