<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><author_name>npub1e46n428mcyfwznl7nlsf6d3s7rhlwm9x3cmkuqzt3emmdpadmkaqqjxmcu</author_name><author_url>https://nostr.ae/npub1e46n428mcyfwznl7nlsf6d3s7rhlwm9x3cmkuqzt3emmdpadmkaqqjxmcu</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://nostr.ae</provider_url><html>📅 Original date posted:2021-03-06&#xA;📝 Original message:I don&#39;t think anyone is proposing anything to &#34;prevent&#34; other people from doing anything they wish. My understanding of &#xA;the goal of this proposal, itself, was to keep the community together by proposing a solution that was palatable to all. &#xA;My point was that I&#39;m not sure that this proposal achieves its own goal, and that there may be solutions which are even &#xA;more likely to keep the community of nodes together.&#xA;&#xA;Matt&#xA;&#xA;On 3/6/21 15:23, David A. Harding wrote:&#xA;&gt; On Sat, Mar 06, 2021 at 01:11:01PM -0500, Matt Corallo wrote:&#xA;&gt;&gt; I&#39;m really unsure that three months is a short enough time window that there&#xA;&gt;&gt; wouldn&#39;t be a material effort to split the network with divergent consensus&#xA;&gt;&gt; rules.&#xA;&gt; &#xA;&gt; I oppose designing activation mechanisms with the goal of preventing&#xA;&gt; other people from effectively exercising self determination over what&#xA;&gt; consensus rules their nodes enforce.&#xA;&gt; &#xA;&gt; Three months was chosen because it&#39;s long enough to give miners a&#xA;&gt; reasonable enough amount of time to activate taproot but it&#39;s also short&#xA;&gt; enough that it doesn&#39;t delay any of the existing proposals with roughly&#xA;&gt; one-year timelines.  As such, I think it has the potential to gain&#xA;&gt; acceptance from multiple current factions (even if it doesn&#39;t ever gain&#xA;&gt; their full approval), allowing us to move forward with rough social&#xA;&gt; consensus and to gain useful information from the attempt that can&#xA;&gt; inform future decisions.&#xA;&gt; &#xA;&gt; -Dave&#xA;&gt;</html></oembed>