BIP Draft: 24 nVersion bits for general purpose use#2116
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Just got that one outstanding comment that should be incorporated.
| Non-upgraded nodes will interpret the reserved bits of this proposal as signals for soft forks, and | ||
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| At the time of writing no known soft forks are pending using any of 24 bits reserved in this BIP, |
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I saw AJ point out that there was a CTV deployment attempt that uses bit 5. I don’t think knowledge of that is widespread, but that should probably be addressed in the backwards compatibility section here.
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