-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 If I understand the code correctly, it's not about rejecting blocks. It's about noticing that >50% of recent blocks are declaring a version number that is meaningless to you. Chances are, there's been a soft fork and you should upgrade.
On 10/30/13 1:24 AM, Mike Hearn wrote: > > But if you are getting soft-forked recent versions of the > reference implementation WILL alert you; see this code in > main.cpp: > > > Perhaps I'm confused about how we're using the term soft fork. My > understanding is that this is where a new upgrade is designed to > look valid to old nodes, and if you don't upgrade you rely on the > miner majority to get you "back on track". For instance, P2SH was > done this way - old nodes that didn't upgrade during that > transition believed all spends of P2SH outputs were valid, even > those spending someone elses coins. > > In this case, the code you cite won't do anything because your > client will never reject a block during a soft-forking upgrade, > even if it does something that's supposed to be invalid or > nonsensical. > > If a new block version changes the serialization format or script > language or SIGHASH rules such that old clients reject the block, > then they will end up on a hard fork and the alerting code will > trigger, which is correct and as it should be. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.19 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJScMvBAAoJEAdzVfsmodw4I5sQAL0Wq4e7b6/KX2zl9RmtFl5S qM9ZJkJV8qzirj1hMgVwvnuOj147Vb3EkJujxeMa8ujepXKZ215mMCLnCHPzWPpJ jTtOBn1FCkCUbyt9uSbZ+56NR+ElmSOsDpAJ8IR9VywHriCxm4OIAMCLTR6CKRfr 6NWySvjEMlsSHyr7DFaJTlMqo+KIUWGmP7tdPu1L2AvNE+613dI5q76IjUHYoxhu 2dDtanYUvFCsdLZEnjTr1N45BBf1mTSlPfmA1ZWHgM779h6VIyb0TeO+iCaxpvWp 2RpSDj3+diFdMUK2uu69ZcwkREH0/RoQLOys6U5DfaGkpPtjY0YXB5DwN9quKgzX padWzbQ0flpwWLYOPYrWATz4sWflxZJu6wHAcUkRS5k9crOLVjritXs1205x7YET 0H9jtbqXmBRXidCP2BOZPdq0PGDF8g2VeEHR69JRe3F3dBfSvbgHfKoiF1jpLLqb rttoP+nD4ZRX8FesV2E/DEZgDZJMd8eqDKNDjq7Db4BTDg24Nq2ATNE2fBtenXwI nXVNdmnvjDxjF0weJGlYgaQTfgVwHRxs+j4qgY4VLM0qEYplhHgg+KmOMFUtxAF/ sZv6w56XtCZS3LdNONAJSZzXIcqgmcodiWKVxkTL29dsWKikcBL5cG9ipdfmjQKT eccFOHArsbW3eSfKP/Mb =FSQI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Android is increasing in popularity, but the open development platform that developers love is also attractive to malware creators. Download this white paper to learn more about secure code signing practices that can help keep Android apps secure. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=65839951&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
