Thread - Nostr Hypermedia

Are you still not getting what he’s saying? Were you not around for SegWit to see how history is rhyming? If a chain split occurs because minority hash (less than 51%) signals for BIP-110, there’s a game theoretical asymmetry favouring RDTS winning even if it initially activates with 1% of the hash or less. Read this please before replying:

Bitcoin Magazine

Op Ed: Here's Why All Rational Miners Will Activate SegWit Through BIP148

A segment of the Bitcoin community is preparing a user activated soft fork (UASF), using Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 148 (BIP148). If they go through

↑ Parent

Replies (2)

Tauri tauri@mynostr.com 2 weeks ago

What Luke is referring to is a permanent chain split, not a temporary chain divergence that will eventually realign with the legacy chain regardless of BIP-110 succeeding or failing. And if the game theory holds (meaning pools are rational actors), no chain split will occur because they will blink and get in line before activation day.

1 replies ↓

Nyoro~n Nyoro~n@static.bitdevs.tw 1 week ago

theres also that funky period between mandatory flagging and rule enforcement where miners (regardless of their stance on arbitrary data) scratch their head about whether or not to risk blocks being thrown away for the sake of flipping one bit 😅

1 replies ↓