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On Wednesday, April 05, 2017 9:37:45 PM Gregory Maxwell via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> Beginning block X and until block Y the coinbase transaction of
> each block MUST either contain a BIP-141 segwit commitment or a
> correct WTXID commitment with ID 0xaa21a9ef.
Why not simply require the BIP-141 commitment?
> Existing segwit using miners are automatically compatible with
> this proposal.
Not entirely. The commitment is not required until segwit activates.
But this should be trivial to implement at least.
> == Overt attack ==
>
> The non-covert form can be trivially blocked by requiring that
> the header version match the coinbase transaction version.
>
> This proposal does not include this block because this method
> may become generally available without restriction in the future,
> does not generally interfere with improvements in the protocol,
> and because it is so easily detected that it could be blocked if
> it becomes an issue in the future.
How does it not interfere with BIP 9? I suppose the versionbits could be moved
to the generation transaction version, but this would hide them from light
clients.
> This document is placed in the public domain.
Could you please use one of these?
https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0002.mediawiki#Recommended_licenses
Luke
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