diff --git a/bip-0065.mediawiki b/bip-0065.mediawiki index 15759568..a2bd40ea 100644 --- a/bip-0065.mediawiki +++ b/bip-0065.mediawiki @@ -282,6 +282,16 @@ preceding a block do have nVersion >= 4, nVersion < 4 blocks become invalid, and all further blocks enforce the new rules. +===SPV Clients=== + +While SPV clients are (currently) unable to validate blocks in general, +trusting miners to do validation for them, they are able to validate block +headers and thus can validate a subset of the deployment rules. SPV clients +should reject nVersion < 4 blocks if 950 out of 1000 preceding blocks have +nVersion >= 4 to prevent false confirmations from the remaining 5% of +non-upgraded miners when the 95% threshold has been reached. + + ==Credits== Thanks goes to Gregory Maxwell for suggesting that the argument be compared