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.
next prev parent 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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