<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><author_name>npub1r3san9v5njl6798hvauyu9ntm6r9c7u8s0t65wls58gpfdcvqp5sa48d0u</author_name><author_url>https://nostr.ae/npub1r3san9v5njl6798hvauyu9ntm6r9c7u8s0t65wls58gpfdcvqp5sa48d0u</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://nostr.ae</provider_url><html>📅 Original date posted:2015-06-26&#xA;📝 Original message:This is a hard fork. It is not about miners, at all. 2013 showed that when&#xA;there is true consensus mining can be coordinated on the order of hours or&#xA;days. This is about pushing through a coercive change to the&#xA;decentralization tradeoffs of bitcoin without unanimous consent.&#xA;On Jun 26, 2015 12:03 PM, &#34;Tier Nolan&#34; &lt;tier.nolan at gmail.com&gt; wrote:&#xA;&#xA;&gt; On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 7:47 PM, Patrick Strateman &lt;&#xA;&gt; patrick.strateman at gmail.com&gt; wrote:&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&gt;  For a proposed hard fork to reach a level of consensus necessary to be&#xA;&gt;&gt; safe requires that there be a clear and self evident course of action.&#xA;&gt;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; Safety increases with more lead-in time.  If the reference client was&#xA;&gt; updated so that the hard fork happened in two years, it would be pretty&#xA;&gt; safe.  Miners would have time to update.&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; If miners (or the community) objected, it is sort of like a game of&#xA;&gt; chicken.&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; This is one of the problems with not making decisions in advance, the&#xA;&gt; resulting hard fork is inherently safer.&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; _______________________________________________&#xA;&gt; bitcoin-dev mailing list&#xA;&gt; bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org&#xA;&gt; https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&#xA;-------------- next part --------------&#xA;An HTML attachment was scrubbed...&#xA;URL: &lt;http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/attachments/20150626/f4b14ff9/attachment.html&gt;</html></oembed>