[Bitcoin-segwit2x] Alpha Milestone

[Jared Lee Richardson]

> Replay protection must be opt-in, not required, in my opinion. Requiring every wallet to upgrade is not necessary,

They won't follow the +2mb hardfork anyway, unless I'm misunderstanding?

> and people could lose funds if they are holding pre-signed time-locked transactions that become invalid.

A valid point, but compared with the chaos that a lack of replay
protection can cause if the legacy chain doesn't die...  Seems less
painful overall.

Jared

On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 10:31 AM, Gavin Andresen
<gavinandresen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 12:34 PM, Jared Lee Richardson via Bitcoin-segwit2x
> <bitcoin-segwit2x at lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>>
>> If the hardfork required a magic-value OP_RETURN on all transactions
>> between block-height <hardfork> and <hardfork+12 months> for
>> transactions to be valid...
>
>
> Replay protection must be opt-in, not required, in my opinion. Requiring
> every wallet to upgrade is not necessary, and people could lose funds if
> they are holding pre-signed time-locked transactions that become invalid.
>
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> Gavin Andresen
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