[bitcoin-dev] Start time for BIP141 (segwit)

---- On Mon, 17 Oct 2016 02:54:04 +0800 Tom Zander via bitcoin-dev <bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote ---- > Honestly, if the reason for the too-short-for-safety timespan is that you > want to use BIP9, then please take a step back and realize that SegWit is a > contriversial soft-fork that needs to be deployed in a way that is extra > safe because you can't roll the feature back a week after deployment. > All transactions that were made in the mean time turn into everyone-can- > spent transactions. No one should use, nor anyone is advised to use, segwit transactions before it is fully activated. Having 2 months or 2 weeks of grace period makes totally no difference in this regard. If anyone tried to use segwit tx during your proposed 2 months grace period, all those txs were still everyone-can-spent. All you are advocating is just stalling the process with no improvement in security. > > I stand by the minimum of 2 months. There is no reason to use BIP9 as it was > coded in an older client. That is an excuse that I don't buy. > -- > Tom Zander > Blog: https://zander.github.io > Vlog: https://vimeo.com/channels/tomscryptochannel > _______________________________________________ > bitcoin-dev mailing list > bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org > https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev >