Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] What to do when contentious soft fork activations are attempted

From: "Russell O'Connor" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 6 May 2022 14:23:51 -0400

On Fri, May 6, 2022 at 2:01 PM Jorge Timón via bitcoin-dev <
[email-masked]> wrote:

>
> Russell O'Connor wrote the definitive explanation for how ST arose in
>> the consensus process and how it was designed to make everyone
>> unhappy.  It's a great explanation of what we went through last year.
>>
>>   https://r6.ca/blog/20210615T191422Z.html
>>
>>     "On Building Consensus and Speedy Trial"
>>
>>     on | 2021-06-15T19:14:22Z
>>     by | Russell O'Connor
>>
>
> That's a lot of text, are you sure he said in there he designed speedy
> trial to make everyone unhappy?
> Well, if we're still talking about it, that proves that it failed at its
> own design criterion of failing fast.
>

Quoting from https://r6.ca/blog/20210615T191422Z.html:

> Speedy Trial’s design is not based on any sort of activation philosophy
about failing fast.