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gojiberra · 2d
so we have a lot of common ground! i agree with you that this brings into question even the foundations of bitcoin. it will be an interesting test of how bitcoin works. i'm still a little unclear ho...
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I'm not sure what you mean by decide to fall.

At height 961632 BIP110 nodes start throwing away any block that doesn't signal BIP110.

They either get the heaviest chain and reorg the others, or they create a new shitcoin.

The latter seems far more likely at this stage. But there is a chance miners will make a reckless last minute change and successfully 51% attack the network to activate BIP110.
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gojiberra · 2d
oh, so the spam initially has nothing to do with what blocks get accepted/rejected/relayed. hmm. it's also sounds a bit like a virus binding to sites.
Cykros · 2d
Though it is worth noting that if they ever lose that 51% majority hashrate the other miners could deactivate it and reinstate the split, as legacy Bitcoin recognizes their blocks as valid. Also worth pointing out that any one legacy block requires 2 bip110 blocks to reorg, but a single legacy bloc...