Damus
Hanshan · 2w
It sounds to me like we are getting used to the idea that the amount of *power* we can exert as individuals is very limited. Ie "your node (vote) doesn't matter" People want to feel like they can cau...
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I honestly don't understand why after BIP110's failure everyone seems to have woken up to what I think is quite an obvious thing:
- nodes without hashpower have a lot of power to resist changes
- nodes without hashpower are almost powerless when it comes to proposing and enacting changes

Mechanic keeps on ranting that miners are employees of the network and they shouldn't be making decisions, yet the small chances BIP110 had relied *entirely* on miners behaving "well" with respect to RDTS nodes and flipping the bit to go along with them, a decision that nothing incentivized them for.

1 CPU == 1 vote doesn't mean 1 node == 1 vote. If BIP110 had 50% of hashpower then the game theory could have played out as two competing chains would have been carrying on for a relatively long time until some non-BIP110 decided to maybe flip the bit in order to consolidate on one chain and avoid a dramatic split.

Any other scenario relies on some set of actors behaving well simply because they like some other set of actors. For all its flaws, Bitcoin doesn't work like that and it never did for that matter. Bitcoin is designed to keep working in a world where everyone is trying to fuck everyone else.
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Duncan Cary Palmer · 2w
Relax Friend... You might get it eventually🤔🧐, but it takes time and real careful evaluation of all of the subtle nuances of what's going on. TBH, I'm still wrestling with and struggling to understand the finer points. I suspect you're perhaps too focused on the symptoms of the slow, relentl...
ARR0W ↗️ · 2w
Having a full node w/o hashpower is securing your sovereignty and privacy. I think it has real benefit, and it should be encouraged still. It however does not give you the right to force others to act a certain way. You’ve got to put up (hashrate) or shut up. Whether it’s on bitcoin or another...
Excommunicado · 1w
How can you say miners had no incentive to signal bip 110 😂. The incentives were very clear. Mine for a decentralised Bitcoin chain with reduced attack vectors to support the sound money project or mine for a state chain that can do whatever it wants with it thanks to controllable 3rd parties inf...