On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 3:11 AM, Mike Hearn <m...@plan99.net> wrote:
> > As I believe out of all proposed protocols Satoshi's is still the most > powerful, I would suggest that any change to the semantics on nSequence be > gated by a high bit or something, so the original meaning remains available > if/when resource scheduling and update flood damping are implemented. That > way people can try it out and if miners are breaking things too frequently > by ignoring the chronological ordering people can abandon protocols that > rely on it, and if they aren't they can proceed and benefit from the > greater flexibility. > > Mike, this proposal was purposefully constructed to maintain as well as possible the semantics of Satoshi's original construction. Higher sequence numbers -- chronologically later transactions -- are able to hit the chain earlier, and therefore it can be reasonably argued will be selected by miners before the later transactions mature. Did I fail in some way to capture that original intent?
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