<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><author_name>npub1g6vxlp4e0nyhs2dqxxcryztyf5f5hyuaq93nw4r87zcnv0sdsa0qqsl5wd</author_name><author_url>https://nostr.ae/npub1g6vxlp4e0nyhs2dqxxcryztyf5f5hyuaq93nw4r87zcnv0sdsa0qqsl5wd</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://nostr.ae</provider_url><html>📅 Original date posted:2015-05-29&#xA;📝 Original message:On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 1:39 PM, Gavin Andresen &lt;gavinandresen at gmail.com&gt;&#xA;wrote:&#xA;&#xA;&gt; But if there is still no consensus among developers but the &#34;bigger blocks&#xA;&gt; now&#34; movement is successful, I&#39;ll ask for help getting big miners to do the&#xA;&gt; same, and use the soft-fork block version voting mechanism to (hopefully)&#xA;&gt; get a majority and then a super-majority willing to produce bigger blocks.&#xA;&gt; The purpose of that process is to prove to any doubters that they&#39;d better&#xA;&gt; start supporting bigger blocks or they&#39;ll be left behind, and to give them&#xA;&gt; a chance to upgrade before that happens.&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&#xA;How do you define that the movement is successful?&#xA;&#xA;For&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&gt; Because if we can&#39;t come to consensus here, the ultimate authority for&#xA;&gt; determining consensus is what code the majority of merchants and exchanges&#xA;&gt; and miners are running.&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&#xA;The measure is miner consensus.  How do you intend to measure&#xA;exchange/merchant acceptance?&#xA;-------------- next part --------------&#xA;An HTML attachment was scrubbed...&#xA;URL: &lt;http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/attachments/20150529/84672694/attachment.html&gt;</html></oembed>