IMPORTANT: April 1 deadline for BIP16 support

[Gavin Andresen]

I have a question
Why we have "block/transaction versions" if we don't use it? There was a good moment to increment version number and later use it in such way: if Miner gets a "strange" block with increased version number -- it is a signal for him to check for new soft. We could have avoided many of lost orphaned blocks

We should have, but "we" didn't think of that in time.

I've been working on a "how to do it better next time" document:
  https://gist.github.com/2355445

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[DeathAndTaxes]

I've been working on a "how to do it better next time" document:
  https://gist.github.com/2355445

Nice read.  Lots of good ideas/concepts.

[deepceleron]

I have a question
Why we have "block/transaction versions" if we don't use it? There was a good moment to increment version number and later use it in such way: if Miner gets a "strange" block with increased version number -- it is a signal for him to check for new soft. We could have avoided many of lost orphaned blocks

We should have, but "we" didn't think of that in time.

I've been working on a "how to do it better next time" document:
  https://gist.github.com/2355445

...so this doesn't happen: http://blockchain.info/tx-index/3618498/4005d6bea3a93fb72f006d23e2685b85069d270cb57d15f0c057ef2d5e3f78d2