Sentences with phrase «existing consensus rules»
One of the most interesting aspects of Wuille's Segregated Witness proposal is that it can be rolled out without breaking any of the existing consensus rules.
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Similar to Core developer Jeff Garzik's BIP 102, Wuille's proposal could provide for a temporary bump to win time before blocks fill up (if Segregated Witness works and is used as intended)-- but without breaking any of the existing consensus rules.
Neither Bitcoin nor any of its developers can force Bitcoin's user base to adhere to new consensus rules that break the existing consensus rules — that's by design.
Wuille's Segregated Witness proposal allows signatures to be removed from Bitcoin transactions, while maintaining Bitcoin's immutability, and without breaking any of the existing consensus rules.
It could do so, moreover, without breaking any of the existing consensus rules - including the block size limit.
Miners controlling a majority of hash power can always decide to enforce new rules, as long as they do not break the existing consensus rules.
Not exact matches
With no - fault divorce the universal rule in the United States after the New York legislature's action in 2010, the temptation may exist to believe that an organic evolution in marriage law has run its course and that American society has reached a new consensus to make speedy divorce normative practice.