On Fri, Sep 02, 2016 at 12:40:58AM -0400, Johnson Lau via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> Deployment
> 
> This BIP will be deployed by "version bits" BIP9 using the same parameters 
> for BIP141 and BIP143, with the name "segwit" and using bit 1.
> 
> For Bitcoin mainnet, the BIP9 starttime is midnight TBD UTC (Epoch timestamp 
> TBD) and BIP9 timeout is midnight TBD UTC (Epoch timestamp TBD).
> 
> For Bitcoin testnet, the BIP9 starttime is midnight 1 May 2016 UTC (Epoch 
> timestamp 1462060800) and BIP9 timeout is midnight 1 May 2017 UTC (Epoch 
> timestamp 1493596800).
> 
> Compatibility
> 
> The reference client has produced compatible signatures from the beginning, 
> and the NULLDUMMY rule has been enforced as relay policy by the reference 
> client since v0.10.0. There has been no transactions violating the 
> requirement being added to the chain since at least August 2015. In addition, 
> every non-compliant signature can trivially be converted into a compliant 
> one, so there is no loss of functionality by this requirement.

This should say "for all scriptPubKey types in actual use, non-compliant
signatures can trivially be converted into compliant ones"

You can of course create a scriptPubKey where that's not possible, but
fortunately no-one appears to do that.


Also, as original author of NULLDUMMY, thanks for finally making it into a
soft-fork!

-- 
https://petertodd.org 'peter'[:-1]@petertodd.org

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