[bitcoin-dev] [BIP Proposal] Version bits with timeout and delay.

[Rusty Russell]

Jorge Timón <jtimon at jtimon.cc> writes:
> On Sep 20, 2015 10:58 PM, "Rusty Russell" <rusty at rustcorp.com.au> wrote:
>>
>> Jorge Timón <jtimon at jtimon.cc> writes:
>> > I disagree with the importance of this concern and old soft/hardforks
> will
>> > replace this activation mechanism with height, so that's an argument in
>> > favor of using the height from the start. This is "being discussed" in a
>> > thread branched from bip99's discussion.
>>
>> Thanks, I'll have to dig through bitcoin-dev and find it.
>
> The initial thread is linked to from the BIP document (which is in the
> bitcoin/bips PR).

Thanks, read and digested.

The good news is that timeout via GetMedianTimePast() doesn't have any
effect on "should I accept this to mempool", and seems pretty
uncontroversial.   Activation is by block number once vote hits 95%, so
that too is fairly simple to implement.

Cheers,
Rusty.