Author: Jorge Timón 2015-11-18 10:15:54
Published on: 2015-11-18T10:15:54+00:00
In an email conversation, Jorge Timón and Shuning Hong discussed the time threshold for upgrading a Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) and what would happen if miners did not upgrade. The majority of miners not upgrading could cause a hardfork to timeout, indicating that either the minimum activation threshold was too short or the hardfork was actually controversial. If some still wanted to deploy it as a schism hardfork, BIP99 recommends using only a mediantime threshold without versionbits nor miner upgrade confirmation. It would be nice to have an equivalent mechanism to wait for the rest of the users, but unfortunately there's none.
Updated on: 2023-06-11T01:06:22.698962+00:00