BUIP096: BCH November upgrade - Enforced lexicographic transaction ordering
Proposer: Andrew Clifford (@solex)
Submitted on: 2018-08-14
Status: closed
Bitcoin Cash is advancing through decentralized development. Perhaps this was easier early-on, but now the dust has settled from the fork and a year has passed, there are many different voices pushing and pulling development priorities. The upcoming 15 November 2018 general upgrade is a major event, hence it would help if Bitcoin Unlimited, as an organization, had an official position on the major elements of the upgrade. This position is determined by the membership.
The purpose of the BUIP is to determine whether the BU membership supports using an enforced transaction ordering method after the scheduled November upgrade (this is a forking change).
Enforced lexicographic transaction ordering in blocks
For further information see:
Pro:
https://blog.vermorel.com/pdf/canonical-tx-ordering-2018-06-12.pdf https://medium.com/@j_73307/canonical-block-order-or-dbe3ac48bcd3
Con:
https://www.docdroid.net/pvFaNUq/critique-canonical-order.pdf https://bitco.in/forum/threads/gold-collapsing-bitcoin-up.16/page-1218#post-78745
N/A
BU does not desire unintended forks in the BCH blockchain, so the BU client will remain compatible with the final specification of the November upgrade.