diff --git a/bip-hashrate-escrows.mediawiki b/bip-hashrate-escrows.mediawiki index 650b17e3..74380251 100644 --- a/bip-hashrate-escrows.mediawiki +++ b/bip-hashrate-escrows.mediawiki @@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ D2 changes deterministically with respect to M3, M4, M5, and M6. # A hash commitment to D2 exists in each block (even if D2 is blank). # Withdrawals in D2 are sorted first by field #1 (Escrow Number) and second by field #4 (Age). This imposes a unique sort. # From one block to the next, "Age" fields must increase by exactly 1. -# Withdrawals are stored in D2 until they fail ("Age" = "MaxAge"), or they succeed (the blockchain contains a txn who's blinded txID matches "WT^"). +# Withdrawals are stored in D2 until they fail ("Age" = "MaxAge"), or they succeed (the blockchain contains a txn whose blinded txID matches "WT^"). In addition, there are special rules for the "ACKs" field (see M4 below). @@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ So, withdrawals must meet the following three criteria: ==Backward compatibility== -As a soft fork, older software will continue to operate without modification. Non-upgraded nodes will see a number of phenomena that they don't understand -- coinbase txns with non-txn data, value accumulating in anyone-can-spend UTXOs for months at a time, and then random amounts leaving the UTXO in single, infrequent bursts. However, this phenomena doesn't affect them or the validity of the money that they receive. +As a soft fork, older software will continue to operate without modification. Non-upgraded nodes will see a number of phenomena that they don't understand -- coinbase txns with non-txn data, value accumulating in anyone-can-spend UTXOs for months at a time, and then random amounts leaving the UTXO in single, infrequent bursts. However, these phenomena don't affect them, or the validity of the money that they receive. ( As a nice bonus, note that the sidechains themselves inherit a resistance to hard forks. The only way to guarantee that the WT^s reported by different clients will continue to match identically, is to upgrade sidechains via soft forks of themselves. )