From: Pieter Wuille <pieter.wuille@gmail.com>
To: Dave Scotese <dscotese@litmocracy.com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Wrapping up the block size debate with voting
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2015 01:32:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPg+sBhura_n92GErDeQVScJh6Y_J3t6KAED9mHYXjSbgMnGJw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGLBAhf34uqzxprY37QnfhDpP4FddfRKGnTeHe+o5Zh-rguD-Q@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 1:26 AM, Dave Scotese via bitcoin-dev <
bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
"Miners can do this unilaterally" maybe, if they are a closed group, based
> on the 51% rule. But aren't they using full nodes for propagation? In this
> sense, anyone can vote by coding.
>
They don't need to use full nodes for propagation. Miners don't care when
other full nodes hear about their blocks, only whether they (eventually)
accept them.
And yes, full nodes can change what blocks they accept. That's called a
hard fork :)
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Pieter
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-04 7:50 [bitcoin-dev] Wrapping up the block size debate with voting jl2012
2015-08-04 9:03 ` Pieter Wuille
2015-08-04 9:22 ` jl2012
2015-08-04 9:29 ` Hector Chu
2015-08-04 9:23 ` Venzen Khaosan
2015-08-04 9:44 ` jl2012
2015-08-04 10:22 ` Tier Nolan
2015-08-06 23:26 ` Dave Scotese
2015-08-06 23:32 ` Pieter Wuille [this message]
2015-08-07 0:37 ` Will
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