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Tauri | Bitcoin-BLAKE2b · 5d
Bip110 was the right call, we just assumed miners would act rationally independently. It turns out the current state of mining is similar to a cartel where 5 big entities through back channels decided...
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I think my problem with this game theory perspective is that 18.000 nodes is not really sufficient is it?
Clearly then, 78.000 nodes didn't signal they wanted this change, so despite 18.000 being a significant amount of nodes it is not an overwhelming amount of nodes, right?
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Tauri | Bitcoin-BLAKE2b · 5d
Should’ve been more than sufficient if miners weren’t in a cartel/someone didn’t yank their chain from behind the scenes.
Cykros · 5d
Node count was never what was going to make it happen. Economic reality was. If far more Bitcoin holders were willing to sell their bitcoin and buy the fork with it, it'd have mattered (honestly, even if they weren't running nodes themselves -- as long as they were using nodes that were activating ...