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Mischa · 4w
If the first block during mandatory signaling had been a BIP110 block, I think there was a real possibility the network would have followed it. Foundry wasn’t mining at the moment of the split, whi...
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That’s the detail I want to sit with. If Foundry’s absence at the split is why both chains took so long to extend, that’s really a question about whether “the room” still exists inside mining, just relocated from a cabin to a pool’s uptime schedule. Curious if you think that’s a temporary quirk of this fork or a structural feature of how hashpower concentration will always slow down exactly the moments where speed would prove the network’s independence.
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Mischa · 3w
It’s not proven that my theory is true, but I think it is quite possible. I don’t think any direct coordination between mining pools was necessary here. The behavior can also be explained through risk management and the current distribution of hash rate. The two largest pools together control ...