[Dev] Segregated witness and BIP 102
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I think, we need a set of at triggers to change to block version 4.
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majority (> 80%? > 95%?) of nodes is capable to at least accept Block Version 4
- Wallets could place a comment like ‘block v4’ in the BC with each transaction if they can read V4 blocks. As not many comments -if any- are manually placed in the BC this should work
*when receiving a block clients check for that comment - when >xx% of blocks during a given time frame - at least 48 or 72 hours, mey be longer - meet the requirement the trigger is met.
- Wallets could place a comment like ‘block v4’ in the BC with each transaction if they can read V4 blocks. As not many comments -if any- are manually placed in the BC this should work
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We define a block about 6 month in the future to trigger the switch to V4 as we did with the Neoscrypt switch and announce that block number and expected date/time to the community
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If you think we need other or additional triggers please comment/add…
We must make sure, that only V2 blocks are generated in the production chain until all triggers are met.
All testing must be done in the Testnet, especially the switch over must be tested upfront.
We can simulate this by using a mixture of 0.8.7, 0.9.3.1 and >= 0.9.3.2 clients in the testnet, starting with a majority of <0.9.3.2 and increasing the percentage of ‘V4 capable’ clients gradually until the trigger is met.In parallel we could run manual checks on the seed node and the explorer to determine the client versions, but this is no guarantee, so it only can be an additional check.
I don’t like to pull any 0.11.x version to the master before we have a clear plan how we approach the switch.
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I think 0.9.3.2 accept block 2 and block 4 , but mine block 2 only . 0.11 mine block 4 only. so 0.9.3.2 is a bridge. When the main pool is installed, we will broadcast the V4.
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@lizhi It isn’t going to work.
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@ghostlander You are right, we can’t switch to block version 4 based on the wallet versions only.
The idea is to use the time, until 0.11.X is ready to upgrade as many clients as possible to a version, that accepts blocks with version 4.
In an ideal world we would have 100% of 0.9.3.2 clients in the network, then define a block to switch over in the 0.11.X version and have to deal with the mining clients only, which of course must be upated to 0.11.x before the switch.
Any non-mining clients remaining on 0.9.3.2 then would not cause any harm and experience no change at all. -
Which Altcoins Are Implementing SegWit?
SegregatedWitness (SegWit) — the proposed upgrade to the Bitcoin protocol developed by the Bitcoin Core developers — is still far from activation. Requiring 95 percent of hash power to signal support for the solution, miner-adoption has seemingly stagnated at around 25 percent for now.
But, of course, SegWit’s open source code is out there. As such, altcoins based on Bitcoin’s codebase can take the code and implement the solution. Indeed, at least two altcoins are adopting SegWit: Litecoin and Viacoin …
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/which-altcoins-are-implementing-segwit-1481577969
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We clearly need a similar trigger as Bitcoin to implement BIP 102.
I’d set the level above 90% better 95%.An alternate solution could be to advertize an upgrade to a new Version of code and announce the switch to BIP 102 for a given block number,like we did for the Neoscrypt fork
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Looks like most coins are taking 75%. Looks like @Lizhi was right in one front, FTC might have got good publicity if we had gone first. Not so much if we did a Vertcoin!
Not Just Bitcoin: Top 6 Altcoins Supporting Segregated Witness
http://cwt.top/en/news/2131/not-just-bitcoin-top-6-altcoins-supporting-segregated-witness -
@wrapper Yeah, some attention and publicity would be awesome until this Segwit hype is going on.
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@wrapper said in [Dev] Segregated witness and BIP 102:
Looks like most coins are taking 75%. Looks like @Lizhi was right in one front, FTC might have got good publicity if we had gone first. Not so much if we did a Vertcoin!
Not Just Bitcoin: Top 6 Altcoins Supporting Segregated Witness
http://cwt.top/en/news/2131/not-just-bitcoin-top-6-altcoins-supporting-segregated-witnessWell, other coins probably have more coders than we have at the moment…
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Is there any chance to implement Segwit to FTC in the near future?
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@SimonTower i wondered this too
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@SimonTower No need actually. FTC has fast blocks with a lot of free space.
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@ghostlander Sure, but with Segwit we could use some kind of lightning network solution.
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@SimonTower Is there anyone who will provide and support this solution?
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@ghostlander Everybody talks about these because of Bitcoin scaling problems. Litecoin doesn’t need it too but made it just like Viacoin. Look at their price now. I think we could reach the mass with a working Lightning network until the hype is going on. With a 75% support limit the community could make the decision. It’s only an idea of course. I found somebody who support it, lol:
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@SimonTower Well, I don’t see a problem. It can be done.
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It will definitely bring in more community members! Its a hot ticket right now.
