From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@gmail.com>
To: joe2015@openmailbox.org
Cc: Bitcoin development mailing list <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Increasing the blocksize as a (generalized) softfork.
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2015 22:39:52 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADm_WcYXU6VXG034j=mD8zkmqNLB96sjvBc6qo8Sx2NepHJk8A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 12:21 PM, joe2015--- via bitcoin-dev <
bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> Remember this is proposed as an alternative to hardforks, which is also a
> "nuclear option". Hardforks carry significant risks such as permanently
> splitting Bitcoin into two chains if global consensus is never reached. A
> (generalized) softfork avoids this problem.
Current hard fork implementations include / will include miner lock-in,
just like any soft fork. They will not activate if global consensus is not
reached.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-21 3:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-20 17:21 [bitcoin-dev] Increasing the blocksize as a (generalized) softfork joe2015
2015-12-21 3:39 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2015-12-21 3:58 ` joe2015
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2015-12-20 10:56 joe2015
2015-12-20 15:22 ` joe2015
2015-12-20 15:50 ` Tier Nolan
2015-12-20 18:17 ` Bryan Bishop
2015-12-21 3:04 ` joe2015
2015-12-21 4:23 ` jl2012
2015-12-21 4:41 ` joe2015
2015-12-30 19:00 ` Bob McElrath
2015-12-30 23:49 ` Jonathan Toomim
2015-12-30 23:56 ` Jonathan Toomim
2015-12-31 0:04 ` Bob McElrath
2015-12-31 4:39 ` joe2015
2015-12-31 10:39 ` David Chan
2015-12-31 11:32 ` joe2015
2016-01-04 21:53 ` Luke Dashjr
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