Tom Zander [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2017-04-05 📝 Original message:On Tuesday, 4 April 2017 ...
📅 Original date posted:2017-04-05
📝 Original message:On Tuesday, 4 April 2017 20:01:51 CEST Luke Dashjr via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> BIP 9 provides a mechanism for having
> miners coordinate softforks because they can make the upgrade process
> smoother this way. But the same is not true of hardforks: miners are
> essentially irrelevant to them, and cannot make the process any smoother.
Can you explain how miners are irrelevant if the upgrade is not a soft fork?
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Tom Zander
Blog: https://zander.github.io
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📝 Original message:On Tuesday, 4 April 2017 20:01:51 CEST Luke Dashjr via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> BIP 9 provides a mechanism for having
> miners coordinate softforks because they can make the upgrade process
> smoother this way. But the same is not true of hardforks: miners are
> essentially irrelevant to them, and cannot make the process any smoother.
Can you explain how miners are irrelevant if the upgrade is not a soft fork?
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Tom Zander
Blog: https://zander.github.io
Vlog: https://vimeo.com/channels/tomscryptochannel