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From: Ariel Luaces <arielluaces@gmail.com>
To: Michael Folkson <michaelfolkson@gmail.com>,
	 Bitcoin Protocol Discussion
	<bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Yesterday’s UASF (LOT=true) kick off meeting
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2021 18:18:29 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOv1TnhbQZ2mfT3Hi75bCuPQ2TOM54iC+rHAV6HDbw7pPYvdzQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFvNmHS8_5riG1FvzQvbWS_twxxTq82GFnT2gLGXirz23Q=pcw@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 12:25 PM Michael Folkson via bitcoin-dev
<bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> At this point in time it also appears the greatest risk to Taproot
> dying a slow death is a small group of developers who think talking in
> conservative tones and talking about endless philosophy makes Bitcoin
> a conservative system. (It doesn’t, it just makes it a dying, decaying
> one).

The current risk to taproot and all future activations is a loud
minority of users who are threatening to co-opt a LOT=false activation
by switching the parameter and organizing a marketing blitz that could
end in a fork if things don't go well.
As long as that threat persists consensus won't be reached. Then an
activation client probably won't be released because I don't expect
many devs will have an appetite for writing code that either doesn't
have consensus or code that will be manipulated into creating
consensus conflicts.
I think Bitcoin is fine staying as is until that minority forks off
with their own alt-node. If the UASF minority is dead set on creating
the alt-node then I only hope it's released quickly so the deadlock
can break. A quick UASF fork allows for an early LOT=false activation.

Cheers
Ariel Lorenzo-Luaces

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-03-04  3:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-03 12:15 [bitcoin-dev] Yesterday’s UASF (LOT=true) kick off meeting Michael Folkson
2021-03-04  2:18 ` Ariel Luaces [this message]
2021-03-04 10:54   ` Michael Folkson

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