91 - Reduced threshold Segwit MASF
BIP: 91 source Layer: Consensus (soft fork) Title: Reduced threshold Segwit MASF Author: James Hilliard Comments-Summary: No comments yet. Comments-URI: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/wiki/Comments:BIP-0091 Status: Final Type: Standards Track Created: 2017-05-22 License: BSD-3-Clause CC0-1.0 Table of ContentsAbstractDefinitionsMotivationSpecificationDeploymentReference implementationBackwards CompatibilityRationaleReferencesCopyright Abstract This document specifies a method to activate the existing BIP9 segwit deployment with a majority hashpower less than 95%. Definitions "existing segwit deployment" refer to the BIP9 "segwit" deployment using bit 1, between November 15th 2016 and November 15th 2017 to activate BIP141, BIP143 and BIP147. Motivation Segwit increases the blocksize, fixes transaction malleability, and makes scripting easier to upgrade as well as bringing many other benefits. This BIP provides a way for a simple majority of miners to coor...