135 - Generalized version bits voting
BIP: 135 Title: Generalized version bits voting Author: Sancho Panza Comments-Summary: No comments yet. Comments-URI: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/wiki/Comments:BIP-0135 https://bitco.in/forum/threads/bip9-generalized-version-bits-voting-bip-genvbvoting.1968/ Status: Rejected Type: Informational Created: 2017-03-29 License: CC0-1.0 GNU-All-Permissive Post-History: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2017-April/013969.html Replaces: 9 ==Abstract== BIP9 introduced a mechanism for using the version bits to signal support for backwards-compatible changes (soft-forks) using a tally over the previous 2016 blocks computed at re-targeting intervals. It provided for a fixed threshold and non-configurable lock-in interval applicable to all deployments on a chain. This document describes a generalized signaling scheme which allows each signaling bit to have its own configurable threshold, window size (number of blocks over w...