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From: Tom Zander <tomz@freedommail•ch>
To: bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org, Luke Dashjr <luke@dashjr•org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP proposal: Generalized version bits voting (bip-genvbvoting)
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2017 12:08:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2796215.bJP4rN4KYZ@strawberry> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201704041801.51655.luke@dashjr.org>

On Tuesday, 4 April 2017 20:01:51 CEST Luke Dashjr via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> BIP 9 provides a mechanism for having
> miners coordinate softforks because they can make the upgrade process
> smoother this way. But the same is not true of hardforks: miners are
> essentially irrelevant to them, and cannot make the process any smoother.

Can you explain how miners are irrelevant if the upgrade is not a soft fork?

-- 
Tom Zander
Blog: https://zander.github.io
Vlog: https://vimeo.com/channels/tomscryptochannel


  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-04-05 10:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-03  9:06 Sancho Panza
2017-04-04 11:16 ` Tom Zander
2017-04-04 16:41   ` Sancho Panza
2017-04-04 16:49   ` Sancho Panza
2017-04-04 18:01 ` Luke Dashjr
2017-04-04 19:28   ` Sancho Panza
2017-04-05 10:08   ` Tom Zander [this message]
2017-04-05 14:09     ` Thomas Kerin
2017-04-08 21:58       ` Sancho Panza

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