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Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP149 timeout-- why so far in the future?
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Gregory Maxwell via bitcoin-dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
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> Based on how fast we saw segwit adoption, why is the BIP149 timeout so
> far in the future?
>
> It seems to me that it could be six months after release and hit the
> kind of density required to make a stable transition.
Agreed, I would suggest 16th December, 2017 (otherwise, it should be
16th January 2018; during EOY holidays seems a bad idea).
This means this whole debacle has delayed segwit exactly 1 (2) month(s)
beyond what we'd have if it used BIP8 in the first place.
Cheers,
Rusty.
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