On Friday, November 13, 2015 4:01:09 PM digi...@gmail.com wrote: > Forgive the frankness but I don't see why signaling your intent to support > an upgrade to one side of a hard fork can be seen as a bad thing. If for > nothing else doesn't this make for a smoother flag day? (Because once you > signal your intention, it makes it hard to back out on the commitment.)
It isn't a commitment in any sense, nor does it make it smoother, because for a hardfork to be successful, it is the *economy* that must switch entirely. The miners are unimportant. > If miners don't have any choice in hard forks, who does? Just the core > devs? Devs have even less of a choice in the matter. What is relevant is the economy: who do people want to spend their bitcoins with? There is no programmatic way to determine this, especially not in advance, so the best we can do is a flag day that gets called off if there isn't clear consensus. Luke _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing list bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
