Damus
waxwing · 19w
With the drama of BIP444 I've seen a lot of people confused about the nature of soft-fork vs hard-fork. This might help: Back in the block size war we had a lot of similar confusion, mostly because i...
Aaron van Wirdum profile picture
>When a fork *is* contentious, and miners, following economic incentive, end up choosing different rulesets to support different bitcoin users, then the chain genuinely forks into two histories.

This is only true if the soft fork chain has the *minority* of hash power.

If and when the soft fork chain has the *majority*, the minority non-soft fork chain will be re-orged away, and there will be no (lasting) split.
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btcschellingpt · 19w
And yet .. bcash still has hashrate 🤷‍♂️
Laukess · 19w
And the minority hash power would be economically incentivised to move to the other side to avoid being reorged. I don’t understand why we would get a split if the majority of miners are going with bip 444. Would it not require a URSF or some sort of code change from the anti 444 group to force a ...