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From: Prayank <prayank@tutanota.de>
To: Michael Folkson <michaelfolkson@gmail.com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] On the regularity of soft forks
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2021 18:03:16 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Mlk5-NX--3-2@tutanota.de> (raw)

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Hi Michael,

Agree with almost everything.

> Miner signaling is a tool for signaling readiness. It is not voting for the soft fork or expressing support for the soft fork. There should not be any attempt to facilitate miner signaling until there is sufficient community consensus (the mining community is a subset of the community) on the soft fork. 

This is really important which gets ignored. I wish there was a way to solve this problem in a way that it is not misinterpreted by users.

During signalling for taproot, there were lots of users in different communities that believed miners are voting for taproot and we need some percentage of miners to agree before making any changes in Bitcoin. It was not just non-technical users but few mining pools, exchanges etc. also considered miners signaling as some voting process.

Best I could do at that moment was share this link: https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/97043/is-there-an-active-list-of-bips-currently-open-for-voting/

However I am sure there are lot of people who still think miners vote during signaling. Opinions of few developers on MASF vs UASF also adds more confusion to this thing. I could not think of any solution to solve this problem.
-- 
Prayank

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             reply	other threads:[~2021-10-11 16:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-11 16:03 Prayank [this message]
2021-10-12 19:04 ` [bitcoin-dev] On the regularity of soft forks Jorge Timón
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2022-01-18 17:22 Prayank
2022-01-19  2:26 ` Billy Tetrud
2022-01-01 15:45 vjudeu
2022-01-18 16:00 ` Billy Tetrud
2021-10-11 12:24 Michael Folkson
2021-10-11 19:12 ` Jeremy
2021-10-11 19:53   ` ZmnSCPxj
2021-10-14 23:52   ` Anthony Towns
2021-10-15  0:43     ` micaroni
2021-10-16 11:02       ` Michael Folkson
2021-12-31  3:10         ` Keagan McClelland

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