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The main falsehood in these claims is the assertion that a split would only occur if “malicious actors carried out a counter-fork.” A BCH-style counter-fork is not necessary. The following is suff...
without rdts in a contentious scenario (bip-110 doesnt die immediately) nothing stops that legacy node from throwing away those blocks if for whatever reason bip-110 blocks gets longer. something as benign as insane luck, edges cases for being offline too long, or not hearing about the legacy chain from ill-timed peers etc can trigger this
since the reasons to throw away already-validated blocks can vary, it would happen seemingly at random with little to no notice to the user. This makes the node unreliable as it has to redownload and revalidate invalid/legacy blocks while being unavailable to validate and relay new blocks/transactions from that chain. with enough unreliability from the nodes running invalid/legacy chain; it can lead to wipeout and replacement by bip110 as it wipeout scenario only goes in one direction.
tldr; without rdts theres no mechanism for nodes to hold onto the invalid/legacy chain other than living with perpetual wipeout risk for the sake of jpegs 😅