Damus
R · 7w
Rules are irrelevant. Miners provide a service (building blocks). Markets determine the value of the product (bitcoin) miners have to sell. Miners use the rule set they think customers want and wi...
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Cool, you can say rules are irrelevant, then blabber about "markets and economics" to demonstrate you nothing about how Bitcoin actually works. It doesn't change the fact that, just like how if you go against your boss's rules because you believe "the market knows better", you're fired, if miners go against the rules set by the nodes because "muh market", their blocks are rejected from being added to the chain, and they lose all their money.

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Ryan Grote · 7w
To go along with your analogy- Yes, you get fired and then get a higher paying job somewhere else. Miners were fired by BIP-110 and are getting paid way more by the legacy chain.
R · 7w
OK. Good luck