{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","author_name":"npub164fseem24m3rdpqrkq9jkx5n4d6r4wg0cthw8669gag3xszngfrsvfec7x","author_url":"https://nostr.ae/npub164fseem24m3rdpqrkq9jkx5n4d6r4wg0cthw8669gag3xszngfrsvfec7x","provider_name":"njump","provider_url":"https://nostr.ae","html":"📅 Original date posted:2015-10-05\n📝 Original message:I fail to see how the number of confirmations has anything to do with it.\n\nWith a non-upgraded Bitcoin software during a soft fork, you get the same\nblocks as everyone else, and you get the same confirmed transactions as\neveryone else. So you do have the exact same \"writings\" as everyone else to\ncalculate your balance.\n\nThe problem is that some transactions that are meaningless to you are\nactually meaningful to people using an upgraded Bitcoin software.\n\nTherefore during a softfork, while you can not miss the *existence* of a\ntransaction, you can miss its *meaning*.\n\nIf Bitcoin was just a decentralized whiteboard for people to write on it,\nthat would be no problem.\n\nBut as soon as you try to actually use Bitcoin (that is, calculate the\naccurate balance of a wallet in a very broad sense), you can be led a wrong\nresult if you did not upgrade, which is a critical problem for financial\nsoftware.\n\nAnd because nothing prevent people to send you transactions of a new type,\nyou have no way to \"opt out\" of this problem.\n\n\n\nLe lun. 5 oct. 2015 à 14:16, Jorge Timón \u003cjtimon at jtimon.cc\u003e a écrit :\n\n\u003e\n\u003e On Oct 5, 2015 2:08 PM, \"Clément Elbaz\" \u003cclem.ds at gmail.com\u003e wrote:\n\u003e \u003e\n\u003e \u003e It will get correct results about :\n\u003e \u003e - the existence every block\n\u003e \u003e - the existence of every transaction\n\u003e \u003e\n\u003e \u003e It will get incorrect results :\n\u003e \u003e - about the nature of some transactions\n\u003e\n\u003e Given the assumptions above, only of transactions without enough\n\u003e confirmations.\n\u003e\n\u003e \u003e - and therefore, about the balances of some wallets.\n\u003e\n\u003e Not if the wallet waits for enough confirmations.\n\u003e\n-------------- next part --------------\nAn HTML attachment was scrubbed...\nURL: \u003chttp://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/attachments/20151005/8c333034/attachment.html\u003e"}