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On Thu, Nov 06, 2014 at 04:48:54PM -0600, Justus Ranvier wrote:
> Why not schedule protocol upgrades every two years for the foreseeable
> future?

For the same reason we don't do hard-forking upgrades of basically every
protocol on the planet on a regular basis, even when we don't have
consensus problems to worry about.

Flag days are really rare in engineering, and for good reason.

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