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Shaolin Fry
Author of 3 BIPs.
- BIP 8: Version bits with lock-in by height: Complete. An alternative way to activate soft forks (backward-compatible rule upgrades) that measures time in block counts rather than clock timestamps. It also adds an option to guarantee activation at the…
- BIP 148: Mandatory activation of segwit deployment: Deployed. Proposed a user-activated soft fork (UASF), where nodes would reject blocks that did not signal support for SegWit after a set date. It was a way for users, rather than miners alone, to push SegWit…
- BIP 149: Segregated Witness (second deployment): Closed. Proposed a second attempt at activating SegWit using version-bits signaling with guaranteed lock-in after a deadline. It was offered as an alternative path in case the original SegWit deployment…