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Additional Blocks

Additional Blocks

Author: Roy Badami
Date: 12 June 2017

Working thoughts on a way to implement a hard fork (such as a block size increase) as a soft fork.

Terminology

A soft fork means a change to the consensus rules that results in some blocks that are valid according to the old consensus

Reflections on opt-in RBF and its consequences for Bitcoin Unlimited

Author: Roy Badami

This document started out life as an intended post to the BUIP004 thread on the Bitcoin Unlimited forums, but grew too large to be posted there.

You can find the thread and proposal that this is in response to at https://bitco.in/forum/threads/buip004-rbf-double-spending-support.694/