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authorBtcDrak <btcdrak@gmail.com>2015-11-20 17:12:43 +0000
committerBtcDrak <btcdrak@gmail.com>2015-11-20 18:56:00 +0000
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Add note about free bits and correct deployment recommendations
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@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ This BIP was edited by BtcDrak, Nicolas Dorier and kinoshitajona.
This BIP is to be deployed by either version-bits BIP9 or by isSuperMajority(). Exact details TDB.
-It is recommended to deploy BIP68 and BIP112 at the same time as this BIP.
+It is recommended to deploy BIP112 and BIP113 at the same time as this BIP.
==Compatibility==
@@ -197,6 +197,8 @@ The only use of sequence numbers by the Bitcoin Core reference client software i
As can be seen from the specification section, a number of bits are undefined by this BIP to allow for other use cases by setting bit (1 << 31) as the remaining 31 bits have no meaning under this BIP. Additionally, bits (1 << 23) through (1 << 30) inclusive have no meaning at all when bit (1 << 31) is unset.
+Additionally, this BIP specifies only 16 bits to actually encode relative lock-time meaning a further 6 are unused (1 << 16 through 1 << 21 inclusive). This allows the possibility to increase granularity by soft-fork, or for increasing the maximum possible relative lock-time in the future.
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The most efficient way to calculate sequence number from relative lock-time is with bit masks and shifts:
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