XMR定期協議升級週期延長為9-12個月(左右) - 數位貨幣

新聞來源連結：
https://www.getmonero.org/2020/09/01/note-scheduled-upgrades.html

新聞本文及部分翻譯：
Lately, there has been some misconception about the scheduled protocol
upgrade policy as well as the original intent of the policy. The goal of this
post is to provide further clarity to stakeholders.

Approximately five years ago, a somewhat formal policy was introduced to
provide clarity to the ecosystem with respect to protocol upgrades. The
policy essentially outlined that consensus changes would be introduced every
six months on a set schedule (whilst allowing for potential reduction in
frequency in case of substantial ecosystem growth). Consistently, Monero has
performed protocol upgrades regularly in the past to introduce new privacy
features or strengthen existing ones. Additionally, various consensus changes
such as adjusting the dynamic block size algorithm, improving verification
performance, and reducing the size of the range proofs (with Bulletproofs)
were introduced. An overview can found in table A1 in the appendix. These
consensus improvements have allowed Monero to improve considerably. As a
result, Monero today is completely different than it was in 2014.
大約五年前，引入了某種形式上政策，使生態系在協議升級方面更加清晰，其概述了將
按照固定的時間（約每六個月）進行一次共識變更。

For a brief amount of time (between April 2018 and March 2019), these
consensus updates additionally included changes to the proof-of-work
algorithm (so-called tweaks) to preserve ASIC-resistance. We note, however,
that these tweaks were merely meant as a stopgap until a long-term algorithm
could be implemented. RandomX currently fulfills this role and therefore no
further changes to the mining algorithm are planned for the foreseeable
future.
然而，我們發現直到有長期演算法實現為止，到這些（對抗asic的）調整僅是權宜之計。
因此在可預見的將來，RandomX仍繼續被使用，且沒有對演算法進一步更改的計劃。

Over the last few years, the Monero ecosystem has grown substantially. Monero
is supported by multiple third-party wallets, several hardware wallet
providers, as well as a plethora of services and exchanges. As a result,
maintaining a six-month schedule of protocol upgrades is increasingly
difficult and effectively became untenable. Furthermore, continuing this
upgrade pace may be detrimental to the ecosystem or inhibit its growth.

The community now feels that the Monero project and protocol have matured
sufficiently to warrant a slower frequency; there is loose consensus that
balancing the needs of the ecosystem with expectations for consensus changes
and feature updates will mean protocol upgrades occur at an interval of about
nine to twelve months. Clear advance notice will be given to ecosystem
participants to encourage and aid development, testing, and deployment. The
aim is to maintain this policy and assess its viability periodically based on
the growth of the ecosystem.
社群現在認為Monero協議已經足夠成熟，因此可以降低（更新）頻率。
這意味著末來協議升級的間隔大約為九至十二個月。

評論：
最近難度又上升許多，希望是更多「人」的加入而不是asic啊...
畢竟asic的能力越來越強，大概除了branch detection以外都可以用邏輯硬爆吧。
ps.7nn之後一顆晶片裡的sram已經可以是2GB了，剛好符合現在所需求的暫存空間，

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