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| author | ฿tcDrak <btcdrak@users.noreply.github.com> | 2018-08-14 21:28:16 +0000 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2018-08-14 21:28:16 +0000 |
| commit | d0a2ac057c0d10496a8df63158fd4dbea0370e49 (patch) | |
| tree | ab62807a9e380fc4d5df14efad2f977c3b36d78a | |
| parent | 11e16622f225a0d5a87a3206528066cd920e5368 (diff) | |
| download | bips-d0a2ac057c0d10496a8df63158fd4dbea0370e49.tar.xz | |
Update metadata and BC
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/bip-reservedbits.mediawiki b/bip-reservedbits.mediawiki index f13e825..b7b5e05 100644 --- a/bip-reservedbits.mediawiki +++ b/bip-reservedbits.mediawiki @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Comments-Summary: No comments yet. Comments-URI: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/wiki/Comments:BIP-???? Status: Draft - Type: Informational + Type: Standards Track Created: 2018-03-01 License: BSD-3-Clause CC0-1.0 @@ -41,7 +41,11 @@ https://github.com/btcdrak/bitcoin/commit/d12516e136d4a8952904a13eedc9f4225f35dc ==Backwards Compatibility== -This proposal is backwards compatible, and does not require a soft fork to implement. +Non-upgraded nodes will interpret the reserved bits of this proposal as signals for soft forks, and may additionally activate the warning system for unknown soft forks. + +This proposal does not require a soft fork to implement. + +At the time of writing no known soft forks are pending using any of 16 bits reserved in this BIP, and given that a non-trivial percentage of the hashrate is already using making uses of those bits, future soft forks SHOULD NOT utilise those bits for activation sinalling. ==Acknowledgements== |