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| author | Luke-Jr <luke_github1@dashjr.org> | 2015-10-27 20:53:05 +0000 |
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| committer | Luke-Jr <luke_github1@dashjr.org> | 2015-10-27 20:53:05 +0000 |
| commit | b1b0cd6483fc8f6f5603fba7019b345aa4639279 (patch) | |
| tree | 288e6fd454901251783f3fa58a2bf17262343fda | |
| parent | 766cf86dac9d6e15ac27a38c66963feae4579feb (diff) | |
| parent | 062e40b491630c23c57af24eb460629740d36c85 (diff) | |
| download | bips-b1b0cd6483fc8f6f5603fba7019b345aa4639279.tar.xz | |
Merge pull request #228 from btcdrak/bip65deploybits
Add note about not consuming nVersion bits
| -rw-r--r-- | bip-0065.mediawiki | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/bip-0065.mediawiki b/bip-0065.mediawiki index 3b477bd..347f0dc 100644 --- a/bip-0065.mediawiki +++ b/bip-0065.mediawiki @@ -273,14 +273,18 @@ https://github.com/petertodd/bitcoin/commit/ab0f54f38e08ee1e50ff72f801680ee84d0f ==Deployment== -We reuse the double-threshold switchover mechanism from BIPs 34 and -66, with the same thresholds, but for nVersion = 4. The new rules are +We reuse the double-threshold IsSuperMajority() switchover mechanism used in +BIP 66 with the same thresholds, but for nVersion = 4. The new rules are in effect for every block (at height H) with nVersion = 4 and at least 750 out of 1000 blocks preceding it (with heights H-1000..H-1) also have nVersion = 4. Furthermore, when 950 out of the 1000 blocks preceding a block do have nVersion = 4, nVersion = 3 blocks become invalid, and all further blocks enforce the new rules. +It should be noted that BIP9 involves permanently setting a high-order bit to +1 which results in nVersion >= all prior IsSuperMajority() soft-forks and thus +no bits in nVersion are permanently lost. + ==Credits== |