On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 11:12 AM, Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net> wrote:

That's why I conclude the opposite - if there is no fork, then people's confidence in Bitcoin will be seriously damaged.

Yes, that is a possibility.

 
If it's impossible to do something as trivial as removing a temporary hack Satoshi put in place, then what about bigger challenges?

This is absolutely not a trivial change.

It is a trivial code change.  It is not a trivial change to the economics of a $3.2B system.

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Jeff Garzik
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