No, changing from 50% to 75% is a hardfork. (75 -> 50 is a softfork). Unless 
you make it pre-scheduled, or leave a special “backdoor” softfork to change the 
discount.

And that would certainly reduce the max tx/s with 50% discount, also reduce the 
incentive to spend witness UTXO. 

> On 10 May 2017, at 00:19, Sergio Demian Lerner <sergio.d.ler...@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> Thanks Johnson and Hampus for the clarifications. 
> However, I would rather do the opposite: soft-fork to 50% now, and soft-fork 
> again to 75% discount later if needed, because it doesn't affect the max 
> transactions/second. 
> 
> Segwit as it is today should be activated. However if it is not before 
> November, then for the next Segwit attempt I would choose a more conservative 
> 50% discount.
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 12:45 PM, Johnson Lau <jl2...@xbt.hk 
> <mailto:jl2...@xbt.hk>> wrote:
> 
> > On 9 May 2017, at 21:49, Sergio Demian Lerner via bitcoin-dev 
> > <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org 
> > <mailto:bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>> wrote:
> >
> >
> > So it seems the 75% discount has been chosen with the idea that in the 
> > future the current transaction pattern will shift towards multisigs. This 
> > is not a bad idea, as it's the only direction Bitcoin can scale without a 
> > HF.
> > But it's a bad idea if we end up doing, for example, a 2X blocksize 
> > increase HF in the future. In that case it's much better to use a 50% 
> > witness discount, and do not make scaling risky by making the worse case 
> > block size 8 Mbytes, when it could have been 2*2.7=5.4 Mbytes.
> >
> 
> As we could change any parameter in a hardfork, I don’t think this has any 
> relation with the current BIP141 proposal. We could just use 75% in a 
> softfork, and change that to a different value (or completely redefine the 
> definition of weight) with a hardfork later.
> 
> 
> 


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