BIP 8: Add a contrast section

luke-jr · luke-jr · commit 17e158b3c3cc · 2017-06-25T06:32:06.000Z
diff --git a/bip-0008.mediawiki b/bip-0008.mediawiki
@@ -172,6 +172,10 @@ BIP 8 is compatible with and reuses the GBT changes from BIP 9.
 
 https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/compare/master...shaolinfry:bip-uaversionbits
 
+==Contrasted with BIP 9==
+
+* The '''lockinontimeout''' flag is added. BIP 9 would only transition to the FAILED state when timeout was reached.
+
 ==Backwards compatibility==
 
 BIP8 and BIP9 deployments should not share concurrent active deployment bits. Nodes that only implement BIP9 will not activate a BIP8 soft fork if hashpower threshold is not reached by '''timeout''', however, those nodes will still accept the blocks generated by activated nodes.
