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From: Tom <tomz@freedommail•ch>
To: bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org, Gregory Maxwell <greg@xiph•org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Making AsicBoost irrelevant
Date: Thu, 12 May 2016 08:29:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5366682.qrCZ1Gi3bP@garp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAS2fgR3Tyk+RkNQS0Y2kpRp5bzaQJURQq4br9sQCuGoRQ7Ydg@mail.gmail.com>

On Wednesday 11 May 2016 22:58:48 Gregory Maxwell via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 10:42 PM, Timo Hanke via bitcoin-dev
> 
> <bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > This is what I meant. If existing hardware gets forked-out it will
> > inevitably lead to the creation of an altcoin. Simply because the hardware
> > exists and can't be used for anything else both chains will survive. I was
> > only comparing the situation to a contentious hardfork that does not fork
> > out any hardware. If the latter one is suspected to lead to the permanent
> > existence of two chains then a hardfork that forks out hardware is even
> > more likely to do so (I claim it's guaranteed).
> 
> There are already many altcoins out there, we could not prevent that
> even if we wanted to. New ones are created all the time.

Comparing apples and oranges.

Altcoins have their own genesis block, the example Timo was talking about was 
a fork in the Bitcoin blockchain.

But its good to know you don't mind a fork in the Bitcoin chain, I'll remember 
that.


  reply	other threads:[~2016-05-12  7:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-10 18:57 Peter Todd
2016-05-10 20:27 ` Tier Nolan
2016-05-10 21:35   ` Matt Corallo
2016-05-10 21:43   ` Sergio Demian Lerner
2016-05-10 22:59     ` Matt Corallo
2016-05-11 12:20     ` Sergio Demian Lerner
2016-05-11 13:08       ` Marek Palatinus
2016-05-11 21:01         ` Matt Corallo
2016-05-11 22:16           ` Simon Liu
2016-05-11 22:50             ` Peter Todd
2016-05-11 14:28       ` Luke Dashjr
2016-05-11 16:24         ` Timo Hanke
2016-05-11 18:28           ` Timo Hanke
2016-05-11 22:49             ` Timo Hanke
2016-05-12  2:27     ` Tom Harding
2016-05-12  2:31       ` Allen Piscitello
2016-05-12  2:33       ` Peter Todd
2016-05-12  4:01         ` Tom Harding
2016-05-10 21:49 ` Marco Pontello
2016-05-10 22:17 ` Sergio Demian Lerner
2016-05-10 22:27   ` Chris Riley
2016-05-11  3:14 ` Timo Hanke
2016-05-11  9:21   ` Jannes Faber
2016-05-11 10:36     ` Henning Kopp
2016-05-11 10:47       ` Jannes Faber
2016-05-11 22:42         ` Timo Hanke
2016-05-11 22:58           ` Gregory Maxwell
2016-05-12  7:29             ` Tom [this message]
2016-05-12 11:05           ` Jorge Timón
2016-05-11 14:07   ` Jorge Timón
2016-05-11 14:18     ` Sergio Demian Lerner
2016-05-11 14:30       ` Jannes Faber
2016-05-11 20:50   ` Matt Corallo
2016-05-11 22:00     ` James Hilliard
2016-05-11 23:01   ` Peter Todd
2016-05-12  0:02     ` Gregory Maxwell
2016-05-12  1:23       ` Russell O'Connor
2016-05-12  1:58         ` Peter Todd
2016-05-12  1:58         ` Matt Corallo

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