Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] This thread is not about the soft/hard fork technical debate

From: Btc Drak <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2015 18:52:25 +0100

On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 6:26 PM, Tom Zander via bitcoin-dev <
[email-masked]> wrote:

> History has shown that for many decision making processes this doesn't
> work,
> and this argument has been made to Core.
> Until today this was essentially a rule that hurt the things that Mike was
> really passionate about.
> Today this hurts the things that some other devs are passionate about.
>

If you are referring to some of Mike's PRs that were either refused or
reverted, it was because they where substantial technical objections to
them. This isn't even in the same ballpark.

Surely you see the absurdity of arguing against soft forks after we
successfully used them already for BIP34 and BIP66?