Author: Luke Dashjr 2016-11-17 03:06:01
Published on: 2016-11-17T03:06:01+00:00
On November 16, 2016, Peter Todd suggested an alternative solution to dealing with BIP65 in a Bitcoin-developer email chain. The proposed solution would involve the use of a hardcoded blockhash that would allow for blocks in a chain ending with that blockhash to not follow BIP65 until that blockhash. This would be considered a softfork as rules are added that otherwise make valid chains invalid. However, Todd warns that if not implemented carefully, this could act like a hardfork. He questions whether the chain up to the block immediately before the checkpoint is valid on its own or if it only becomes retroactively valid when it hits the checkpoint.
Updated on: 2023-06-11T20:32:55.250947+00:00