Bitcoin Dev Archive BIPs

BIP 66: Strict DER signatures

Consensus (soft fork), Specification, Deployed. By Pieter Wuille. First discussed on the list 26 Mar 2014; 33 threads and 664 messages in all.

The BIP text BIP 66 in the glossary

The threads, in order

Listed by the date of each thread's first message.

2014 1 thread

26 Mar 2014
New BIP32 structure Mike Hearn
100 messages

2015 19 threads

21 Jan 2015
Strict DER signatures Pieter Wuille
32 messages
5 Feb 2015
Bitcoin Core 0.10.0rc4 tagged Wladimir J. van der Laan
2 messages
16 Feb 2015
Bitcoin Core 0.10.0 released Wladimir J. van der Laan
2 messages
7 May 2015
Block Size Increase Requirements Matt Corallo
75 messages
19 May 2015
Bitcoin Core 0.9.5 release candidate 1 tagged Wladimir J. van der Laan
1 message
24 May 2015
Bitcoin Core 0.9.5 released Wladimir J. van der Laan
1 message
12 Jun 2015
Miners: You'll (very likely) need to upgrade your Bitcoin Core node soon to support BIP66 Peter Todd
3 messages
12 Jun 2015
User vote in blocksize through fees Peter Todd
42 messages
24 Jun 2015
BIP Process and Votes Raystonn .
51 messages
25 Jun 2015
BIP65 / CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY deployment Peter Todd
5 messages
4 Jul 2015
Fork of invalid blocks due to BIP66 violations Raystonn .
17 messages
12 Jul 2015
Bitcoin Core 0.11.0 released Wladimir J. van der Laan
4 messages
17 Jul 2015
BIP 102 - kick the can down the road to 2MB Jeff Garzik
29 messages
24 Jul 2015
Bitcoin Roadmap 2015, or "If We Do Nothing" Analysis Dave Scotese
16 messages
28 Jul 2015
Disclosure: consensus bug indirectly solved by BIP66 Pieter Wuille
4 messages
19 Aug 2015
CLTV/CSV/etc. deployment considerations due to XT/Not-BitcoinXT miners Peter Todd
19 messages
27 Sep 2015
Let's deploy BIP65 CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY! Peter Todd
101 messages
5 Oct 2015
This thread is not about the soft/hard fork technical debate Sergio Demian Lerner
58 messages
16 Dec 2015
Block size: It's economics & user preparation & moral hazard Jeff Garzik
31 messages

2016 6 threads

6 Feb 2016
Gavin: A Response to Your Forking BIP Bryan Bishop
1 message
16 Aug 2016
New BIP: Low S values signatures Johnson Lau
5 messages
10 Sep 2016
Proposed segwit related consensus and policy rules in Bitcoin Core 0.13.1 Johnson Lau
1 message
30 Sep 2016
New BIP: Limiting excessive SignatureHash operation Johnson Lau
1 message
27 Oct 2016
The Soft Fork Deception Andrew
3 messages
14 Nov 2016
Buried Deployments Suhas Daftuar
24 messages

2017 5 threads

25 Feb 2017
Moving towards user activated soft fork activation shaolinfry
18 messages
5 Apr 2017
A different approach to define and understand softforks and hardforks Johnson Lau
3 messages
22 May 2017
Reduced signalling threshold activation of existing segwit deployment James Hilliard
11 messages
14 Sep 2017
Bitcoin Core 0.15.0 released Wladimir J. van der Laan
1 message
15 Sep 2017
Bitcoin Knots 0.15.0.knots20170914 released Luke Dashjr
1 message

2018 1 thread

23 Jan 2018
BIP16 enforcement change in V0.16 John Newbery
1 message

2020 1 thread

1 Oct 2020
Message signing (again) Karl-Johan Alm
1 message