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Good point on not having the flag day on a holiday. One or two weeks sounds=
 good to me.


On Monday, March 24th, 2025 at 8:25 AM, Murch <murch@murch.one> wrote:

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> Errr, I wrote the same date as you, but I meant a week later, 2026-01-08
> instead.
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> -Murch
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> On 2025-03-21 14:20, Murch wrote:
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> > Hey Antoine and everyone,
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> > What you suggest makes sense to me. Since the 20-minute difficulty
> > exception is now exploited perpetually, it doesn=E2=80=99t serve its in=
tended
> > purpose of allowing developers to mine themselves a few coins easily or
> > confirm their own non-standard transactions. In that case, it would be
> > better to not have it at all.
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> > On 2025-03-18 07:29, 'Antoine Poinsot' via Bitcoin Development Mailing
> > List wrote:
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> > > I propose to fix this by removing the difficulty reset rule from
> > > testnet4 through a flag day hard fork on 2026-01-01.
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> > I would suggest to pick a date that=E2=80=99s not a holiday in many pla=
ces to
> > avoid disrupting people=E2=80=99s holiday, how about 2026-01-01 instead=
?
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> > Cheers,
> > Murch
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