[bitcoin-dev] fork types (Re: An implementation of BIP102 as a softfork.)

2015-12-30 Thread Adam Back via bitcoin-dev
> I guess the same could be said about the softfork flavoured SW implementation No, segregated witness https://bitcoin.org/en/bitcoin-core/capacity-increases-faq is a soft-fork maybe loosely similar to P2SH - particularly it is backwards and forwards compatible by design. These firm forks have

Re: [bitcoin-dev] fork types (Re: An implementation of BIP102 as a softfork.)

2015-12-30 Thread Bryan Bishop via bitcoin-dev
On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 5:05 PM, Adam Back via bitcoin-dev < bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > There is also another type of fork a firm hard fork that can do the > same but for format changes that are not possible with a soft-fork. > I was drafting an email for a new thread with