Return-Path: Received: from smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (smtp1.linux-foundation.org [172.17.192.35]) by mail.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C2F41A20 for ; Wed, 19 Aug 2015 15:25:56 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from mail-la0-f47.google.com (mail-la0-f47.google.com [209.85.215.47]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E107323E for ; Wed, 19 Aug 2015 15:25:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: by lahi9 with SMTP id i9so5276922lah.2 for ; Wed, 19 Aug 2015 08:25:54 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=Xthb4iHF54U5lRMqA+42sIlzOiJYNzLU1Gp/cTnbX1U=; b=FOvGw93f4nl93iPigOASxAGSLUNn05XaQ65Bbs3PPPoPPT55F1P07/TXfnprkiGzcj 7ol3QLZFar0CvqFfpiY9KUVAwb5xAJQ6cPlGKWl7IXQCVAtTPfkMiYNw/E0+zzkFoS8b sMI2KSDXZx/bfwZ80CSfaz4kDsR5+/L6XLO7a+yAzWmpFPN9hKKlL2qek2hamHJF02+x HyTx23S7MTKs/PZhPeeBi0ZLfcXuQL2PSnQ/EJrxpy+6n9c/liJ3192TjTBNdfZBXsNE hjcarHrLQb2KOMwhznkPWYUcDNoj/7z54/3Vc6xZCdlUfH+ZC0avEiNOQ+zSxtb2T5hl 9JmA== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQl1XEhiv7GigP64KIT4IyySB8ViCos46UQ83BzuQuPmsQMht3j/kxHJMz2efxAUReLNYpoK MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.152.7.68 with SMTP id h4mr11789949laa.94.1439997954089; Wed, 19 Aug 2015 08:25:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.25.15.22 with HTTP; Wed, 19 Aug 2015 08:25:53 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <55D467AF.5030203@riseup.net> References: <55D45715.4010107@riseup.net> <55D467AF.5030203@riseup.net> Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 17:25:53 +0200 Message-ID: From: =?UTF-8?B?Sm9yZ2UgVGltw7Nu?= To: odinn Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on smtp1.linux-foundation.org Cc: Bitcoin Dev Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin is an experiment. Why don't we have an experimental hardfork? X-BeenThere: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: Bitcoin Development Discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 15:25:56 -0000 On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 1:25 PM, odinn wr= ote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On 08/19/2015 04:06 AM, Jorge Tim=C3=B3n wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 12:14 PM, odinn >> wrote: >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 >>> >>> Firstly, XT is controversial, not uncontroversial; >> >> XT it's just a software fork. > > Please read the whole pull request discussing this loathsome subject her > e: > > https://github.com/bitcoin-dot-org/bitcoin.org/pull/899 > > It was fairly detailed and conclusive. I'm not being a dumdum when I > say that it is controversial. And I'm not trying to be a dumdum (whatever that is) when saying that Bitcoin XT the softfork and BIP101 implemented as a schism hardfork in Bitcoin XT are different things. One existed before the other. And if there wasn't a schism hardfork in the making there wouldn't be any warning about Bitcoin XT in bitcoin.org because Bitcoin XT implemented the same consensus rules (and I think was largely ignored). When we say "Bitcoin XT is bad" some users read "Bitcoin Core devs think any code fork to Bitcoin Core is back because they lose control over it". The second is not the case: nobody complained or cared about Bitcoin XT when it implemented the same consensus rules. >> BIP101 (as currently implemented in Bitcoin XT) is a Schism >> hardfork (or an altcoin), but BIP101 could be modified to be >> deployed like an uncontroversial hardfork (in current bip99's >> draft, a given height plus 95% mining upgrade confirmation after >> that). > > Everybody here is well aware of what this sad proposal is. See > detailed reply to the moaning and groaning of Hearn on this subject, > where he claimed that "the difference between hard and soft forks is > actually quite small, has got smaller with time and is thus hardly the > policy-founding chasm you seem to think it is." He was wrong, of > course. Thus, my reply to that, which I won't bother to quote in > detail but which you can read here: > https://github.com/bitcoin-dot-org/bitcoin.org/pull/899#issuecomment-117 > 815987 I'm not sure I will learn anything by reading this link (I didn't reading the previous link). Have you read BIP99 already? Can you tell me where you disagree with what's in BIP99 in one of its 2 threads? https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/181 > Given the state in which bitcoin is in now, one could say that things > are fairly horrible, but by no means necessitating, as you put it, a > schism hardfork. It is clear and evidenced by my previous posts and > others that Hearn's efforts are an attack on the bitcoin network. Again, I'm against this Schism hardfork but maybe I'm in favor of an Schism hardfork in the future, I don't know. We're both against the Schism hardfork but somehow you think I'm in favor and are trying to change my mind. What are we even discussing about? >>> There is no basis for further promoting XT by suggesting that it >>> should even be tested. >> >> All I'm saying is that Bitcoin XT the software fork is totally >> fine (like other alternative Bitcoin implementations). > > It's not totally fine at all. It shouldn't even exist. People are > doing other unsuspecting users a disservice by even suggesting that it > should be downloaded. Right now it shouldn't be downloaded because it contains this quite irrational Schism hardfork. When it was only a not-up-to-date-bitcoin/master + the commits (non-consensus changes) Hearn would like to see in Bitcoin Core nobody was specially worried about it. > The big problem is >> BIP101 being deployed as a Schism hardfork. > > This is certainly a problem. So what are we discussing about?