From: Dan Libby <dan@osc.co.cr>
To: adam@cypherspace.org,
Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>,
ZmnSCPxj <ZmnSCPxj@protonmail.com>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] hypothetical: Could soft-forks be prevented?
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 13:01:48 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bb4015e7-f69f-d273-115e-c115ec2d8f0a@osc.co.cr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALqxMTFEA2X0GJwF8rO=8twsgW=brrzScpDD=owiK9otocdjoA@mail.gmail.com>
On 09/15/2017 02:14 AM, Adam Back wrote:
> However most types of soft fork are opt-in...
my concern is that the community can be manipulated via political means.
marketing, social media, payoffs, fud, etc, etc, etc. And essentially
degrades to tyranny of the majority.
So if there is any way to make opt-in forks impractical/infeasible for
purpose of network wide consensus rule change, I'd love to hear it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-15 20:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-13 9:50 [bitcoin-dev] hypothetical: Could soft-forks be prevented? Dan Libby
2017-09-15 4:01 ` ZmnSCPxj
2017-09-15 9:14 ` Adam Back
2017-09-15 11:47 ` Tier Nolan
2017-09-15 20:01 ` Dan Libby [this message]
2017-09-15 19:55 ` Dan Libby
2017-09-15 20:40 ` Simone Bronzini
2017-09-15 21:48 ` Dan Libby
2017-09-16 1:42 ` Andrew Poelstra
2017-09-16 3:38 ` ZmnSCPxj
[not found] ` <CADSvpf7sC-Rh0qoGKgagQV7Mo_BV6ymeadgfMzJ_oXPCTyJ6Mw@mail.gmail.com>
2017-09-15 20:15 ` Dan Libby
2017-09-18 6:40 Daniel Wilczynski
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