Transaction

j"1LAnZuoQdcKCkpDBKQMCgziGMoPC4VQUckMâ<div class="post"><div class="quoteheader"><a href="https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2162.msg28326#msg28326">Quote from: gavinandresen on December 09, 2010, 12:48:45 AM</a></div><div class="quote">HOWEVER: &nbsp;jgarzik, you're over-reacting, too. &nbsp;This will <b>not</b> cause a block chain split; all clients will accept blocks containing non-standard transactions as valid. &nbsp;Most (many?) just won't put non-standard transactions in blocks that they generate, and won't relay them. &nbsp;There will be no havoc.<br/></div><br/>I never said it would cause a block chain split. &nbsp;It's more fundamental: a rules split.<br/><br/>Forking the network implied a majority of miners <i>not</i> running mainline bitcoin transaction rules. &nbsp;theymos appears to be drawing a line in the sand, where he wants to convince most miners to stop paying attention to mainline bitcoin transaction validation rules. &nbsp;He's free to do that. &nbsp;And miners are free to validate what they want to.<br/><br/>But this sort of split will make it more difficult to work on the network in the future, and de facto, opens the door to larding down the block chain with all sorts of non-currency-related data as being discussed in other threads.</div> text/html