Re: [Bitcoin-development] Incorporating block validation rule modifications into the block chain

2013-02-13 Thread Raph Frank
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 3:49 PM, Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.com wrote: You misunderstand what BIP_0034 is doing— it's not gauging consensus, it's making sure that the change is safe to enforce. This is a subtle but important difference. Sounds reasonable. The change in BIP-34 doesn't

[Bitcoin-development] Incorporating block validation rule modifications into the block chain

2013-02-12 Thread Raph Frank
Has this been considered? If made sufficiently general, older clients could support any extension of the rules. Various hard parameters within the protocol are defined in main.h of the official client. In BIP-34, there is a suggested way to make changes, based on consensus.