Author: Peter Todd 2014-11-07 08:48:10
Published on: 2014-11-07T08:48:10+00:00
In an email conversation from November 7, 2014, Tamas Blummer asked Peter Todd if he saw any chance for forking to work best with a freeze of the consensus code. Peter responded that the consensus code is essentially frozen and any changes introduced would be due to a mistake rather than intentional. However, he did mention two serious soft-fork proposals in the air: Pieter Wuille’s BIP62 and his CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY. Despite these proposals, dealing with proposed changes in an environment where competing implementations use essentially the same consensus-critical code is much easier on both a technical and political level.
Updated on: 2023-06-09T03:53:53.257929+00:00