Linking a bit4 MASF with a bit4 "lock in of a hard fork in 6 months" is something that will simply never happen for basic engineering reasons. 

Spoonet, an oft-quoted hard fork that actually has some strong support, is a much better candidate for the code base - but not of the supposed supporters of bit4 MASF seem to be ready to roll up their sleeves and do any work at all.   I mean, if they really had "millions" for development, they could just hire dome developers and built it correctly, right?   But they aren't ... instead they are pumping money into "bcoin", which doesn't yet have any of the protections needed to get consensus.   Maybe it will some day.

Claiming that miners support segwit is disingenuous ... considering that if they supported it, they would be signaling for it today... instead of distracting the community with fake proposals that have no peer-reviewed code.


On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 5:21 AM, Tom Zander via bitcoin-dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
On Friday, 26 May 2017 10:02:27 CEST Cameron Garnham via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> So, I started searching for the motivations of such a large amount of the
> mining hash-rate holding a position that isn’t at-all represented in the
> wider Bitcoin Community. My study of ASICBOOST lead to a ‘bingo’ moment:
> If one assumes that the 67% of the hash rate that refuse to signal for
> SegWit are using ASICBOOST. The entire picture of this political
> stalemate became much more understandable.

I’m uncomfortable with your “bingo” moment, and your huge assumption to get
to make it fit.
The reality is that we have seen repeatedly that the miners are stating they
are Ok with an ASICBOOST disabling change.
The larger mining industry has just this week come to consensus about a
better way to activate SegWit! Referring to the New York consensus meeting!!
https://medium.com/@DCGco/bitcoin-scaling-agreement-at-consensus-2017-133521fe9a77

I question your conclusions of miners not supporting SegWit because of
ASICBOOST, the evidence shows this accusation to be false.

You openly admitting here that you use ASICBOOST as a tool to push SegWit is
further making me uncomfortable. Your intention may be pure, but the methods
are not.
And on that I agree with Andreas, that taints this proposal.

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