Row 64806

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the whole thing with percentage blocks mined with a flag was likely responsible for the thought that miners have political power.

The initial idea was to avoid a hard set fork-date and instead do it when the miners have upgraded their software to the latest. And we can know this is the case by the new software putting a marker in blocks.

So there were websites that counted the percentage of blocks in the last week to get a feel when the miners were ready and we'd see the upgrade happen.

That was the intention, that is how it was designed. But people started seeing it as voting. Miners voting for or against something. And miners had no intention of taking that spot.

The moment it got used as a mechanism for voting was when things started going severely wrong.

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text the whole thing with percentage blocks mined with a flag was likely responsible for the thought that miners have political power. The initial idea was to avoid a hard set fork-date and instead do it when the miners have upgraded their software to the latest. And we can know this is the case by the new software putting a marker in blocks. So there were websites that counted the percentage of blocks in the last week to get a feel when the miners were ready and we'd see the upgrade happen. That …
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dataType comment
communityName r/Bitcoincash
datetime 2024-05-23
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