Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP proposal: Generalized version bits voting (bip-genvbvoting)

From: Tom Zander <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2017 12:08:51 +0200

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?

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