Author: Anthony Towns 2022-04-11 13:05:22
Published on: 2022-04-11T13:05:22+00:00
In a bitcoin-dev email thread, Jorge Timón and Anthony Towns discussed the scenarios in which BIP8 fails compared to speedy trial. Timón had provided a hypothetical example of an "evil soft fork" making it through activation parameters set and released but not achieving supermajority hashpower support. In such a scenario, bip8+lot=true would activate the evil fork, whereas speedy trial would block it. Towns argued that bip8 is meant for activating good proposals and bad ones need to be stopped in review. Timón disagreed and accused Towns of not listening to him. However, Towns invited Timón to provide a counterexample to his claim.
Updated on: 2023-05-22T18:20:24.483908+00:00