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Comments-URI: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/wiki/Comments:BIP-????
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Status: Draft
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Type: Informational
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Type: Standards Track
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Created: 2018-03-01
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License: BSD-3-Clause
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==Backwards Compatibility==
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This proposal is backwards compatible, and does not require a soft fork to implement.
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Non-upgraded nodes will interpret the reserved bits of this proposal as signals for soft forks, and may additionally activate the warning system for unknown soft forks.
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This proposal does not require a soft fork to implement.
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At the time of writing no known soft forks are pending using any of 16 bits reserved in this BIP, and given that a non-trivial percentage of the hashrate is already using making uses of those bits, future soft forks SHOULD NOT utilise those bits for activation sinalling.
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==Acknowledgements==
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