On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 12:25 PM Michael Folkson via bitcoin-dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > > At this point in time it also appears the greatest risk to Taproot > dying a slow death is a small group of developers who think talking in > conservative tones and talking about endless philosophy makes Bitcoin > a conservative system. (It doesn’t, it just makes it a dying, decaying > one).
The current risk to taproot and all future activations is a loud minority of users who are threatening to co-opt a LOT=false activation by switching the parameter and organizing a marketing blitz that could end in a fork if things don't go well. As long as that threat persists consensus won't be reached. Then an activation client probably won't be released because I don't expect many devs will have an appetite for writing code that either doesn't have consensus or code that will be manipulated into creating consensus conflicts. I think Bitcoin is fine staying as is until that minority forks off with their own alt-node. If the UASF minority is dead set on creating the alt-node then I only hope it's released quickly so the deadlock can break. A quick UASF fork allows for an early LOT=false activation. Cheers Ariel Lorenzo-Luaces > -- > Michael Folkson > Email: michaelfolk...@gmail.com > Keybase: michaelfolkson > PGP: 43ED C999 9F85 1D40 EAF4 9835 92D6 0159 214C FEE3 > _______________________________________________ > bitcoin-dev mailing list > bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org > https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing list bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
