Bitcoin Dev Archive BIPs

BIP 99: Motivation and deployment of consensus rule changes ([soft/hard]forks)

Informational, Closed. By Jorge Timón. First discussed on the list 22 Jun 2015; 15 threads and 423 messages in all.

The threads, in order

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

2015 10 threads

22 Jun 2015
Draft BIP : fixed-schedule block size increase Gavin Andresen
62 messages
30 Jul 2015
Block size following technological growth Pieter Wuille
111 messages
18 Aug 2015
Bitcoin is an experiment. Why don't we have an experimental hardfork? Johnson Lau
22 messages
21 Aug 2015
Consensus based block size retargeting algorithm (draft) Btc Drak
26 messages
3 Sep 2015
BIP 100 specification Jeff Garzik
20 messages
27 Sep 2015
Let's deploy BIP65 CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY! Peter Todd
101 messages
2 Oct 2015
Dev-list's stance on potentially altering the PoW algorithm Daniele Pinna
12 messages
12 Nov 2015
BIP - Block size doubles at each reward halving with max block size of 32M John Sacco
15 messages
16 Nov 2015
BIP99 and Schism hardforks lifecycle (was Switching Bitcoin Core to sqlite db) Jorge Timón
1 message
18 Dec 2015
The increase of max block size should be determined by block height instead of block time Wang Chun
10 messages

2016 3 threads

1 Feb 2016
BIP Process: Status, comments, and copyright licenses Luke Dashjr
16 messages
4 Feb 2016
Hardfork bit BIP Johnson Lau
14 messages
6 Feb 2016
Gavin: A Response to Your Forking BIP Bryan Bishop
1 message

2017 1 thread

5 Apr 2017
A different approach to define and understand softforks and hardforks Johnson Lau
3 messages

2021 1 thread

21 May 2021
Consensus protocol immutability is a feature Raystonn .
9 messages