<div dir="ltr">On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 9:26 PM, Luke-Jr <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:luke@dashjr.org" target="_blank">luke@dashjr.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
They define standard for interoperability between<br>
software. So, if you want nodes to relay these transactions, you need to<br>
convince them, not merely write a BIP for the transaction format.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I agree with you in theory, each miner could decide their inclusion rules for themselves.<br><br>In practice, if the reference client is updated, then most miners will accept those transactions. In addition, it would eventually propagate to alt-coins (or at least the supported ones).<br>
<br></div><div>I could simply submit the changes as a pull request for the reference client, but I was hoping that by doing it this way, it would increase the odds of it being accepted.<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Defining a BIP for cross-chain trading would be one way to do that.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I don't think it quite requires the same coordination in the short term. I could write up the sequence as an info BIP.<br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">The malleability "issue" has been known for years.<br>
I wouldn't expect any special effort made to fix it...<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It is possible to tweak the protocol so that it still works. However, it means that 3rd parties are required (that could go in the BIP too).<br>
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There is some ongoing discussion of a softfork to basically redo the Script<br>
language entirely, but it will take quite a bit of time and development before<br>
we'll see it in the wild.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Implementing multi-P2SH gets a lot of the benefits of MAST, in terms of efficiency.<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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P.S. Did the BIP editor assign these numbers? If not, best to keep them<br>
numberless until assigned, to avoid confusion when people Google the real BIP<br>
44 and 45...<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Not yet, but that is just my personal repo. I did email gmaxwell, but he said that they can't be assigned until some discussion has happened.<br></div><div> <br></div>
<div>I take your point that the name appears in the link though, so could cause issues with searching.<br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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