Re: [Bitcoin-development] Miners: You'll (very likely) need to upgrade your Bitcoin Core node soon to support BIP66

2015-06-13 Thread Pieter Wuille
On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 10:37 AM, Tier Nolan wrote: > Once the 75% threshold is reached, miners who haven't updated are at risk > of mining on invalid blocks. > Note that we've been above the 75% threshold since june 7th (before Peter's main was sent). -- Pieter ---

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Miners: You'll (very likely) need to upgrade your Bitcoin Core node soon to support BIP66

2015-06-12 Thread Tier Nolan
Once the 75% threshold is reached, miners who haven't updated are at risk of mining on invalid blocks. If someone produces a version 3 block that violates the new rules, then miners who haven't upgraded will end up wasting mining power building on that block. This could be used as an expensive wa

[Bitcoin-development] Miners: You'll (very likely) need to upgrade your Bitcoin Core node soon to support BIP66

2015-06-11 Thread Peter Todd
Summary --- The BIP66 soft-fork recently passed the 75% support threshold. This means that 75% of the hashing power has upgraded to support BIP66; 25% of the hashing power has not. Once 95% of the hashing power has upgraded, blocks created by the 5% who have not upgraded will be rejected. If