From: Pieter Wuille <pieter.wuille@gmail•com>
To: Paul Iverson <piverson1024@gmail•com>,
Bitcoin Protocol Discussion
<bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Hard fork proposal from last week's meeting
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 13:16:03 -0700 [thread overview]
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On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 12:56 PM, Paul Iverson via bitcoin-dev
<bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> So I think Core can't decide on hard forks like this. It must be left up to
> the users. I think only choice is for Core to add a run-time option to allow
> node operators to increase block size limit, so that this very controversial
> decision is not coming from Core. It must come from the community.
Bitcoin Core's (nor any other software's) maintainers can already not
decide on a hard fork, and I keep being confused by the focus on Core
in this topic. Even if a hard forking change (or lack thereof) was
included into a new release, it is still up to the community to choose
to run the new software. Bitcoin Core has very intentionally no
auto-update feature, as the choice for what network rules to implement
must come from node operators, not developers. Ask yourself this: if a
new Bitcoin Core release would include a new rule that blacklists
<random famous person>'s coins. What do you think would happen? I hope
that people would refuse to update, and choose to run different full
node software.
Core is not special. It is one of many pieces of software that
implement today's Bitcoin consensus rules. If a hardfork is to take
place in a way that does not result in two currencies, it must be
clear that the entire ecosystem will adopt it. Bitcoin Core will not
merge any consensus changes that do not clearly satisfy that
criterion.
--
Pieter
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2017-03-28 19:56 Paul Iverson
2017-03-28 20:16 ` Pieter Wuille [this message]
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2017-03-31 23:13 ` Eric Voskuil
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2017-03-30 10:34 ` Tom Zander
2017-03-30 11:19 ` David Vorick
2017-03-30 21:42 ` Jared Lee Richardson
2017-03-30 11:24 ` Aymeric Vitte
2017-03-29 19:33 Daniele Pinna
2017-03-29 20:28 ` Peter R
2017-03-29 22:17 ` Jared Lee Richardson
2017-03-29 20:28 ` David Vorick
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2017-03-30 17:16 ` Jared Lee Richardson
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2017-03-31 5:28 ` Jared Lee Richardson
2017-03-31 8:19 ` Luv Khemani
2017-03-31 15:59 ` Jared Lee Richardson
2017-03-31 16:14 ` David Vorick
2017-03-31 16:46 ` Jared Lee Richardson
2017-03-31 18:23 ` David Vorick
2017-03-31 18:58 ` Eric Voskuil
2017-04-01 6:15 ` Jared Lee Richardson
2017-03-28 16:59 Wang Chun
2017-03-28 17:13 ` Matt Corallo
2017-03-29 8:45 ` Jared Lee Richardson
2017-03-28 17:23 ` Alphonse Pace
2017-03-28 17:31 ` Wang Chun
2017-03-28 17:33 ` Jeremy
2017-03-28 17:50 ` Douglas Roark
2017-03-28 17:33 ` Juan Garavaglia
2017-03-28 17:53 ` Alphonse Pace
2017-03-28 22:36 ` Juan Garavaglia
2017-03-29 2:59 ` Luv Khemani
2017-03-29 6:24 ` Emin Gün Sirer
2017-03-29 15:34 ` Johnson Lau
2017-04-01 16:15 ` Leandro Coutinho
2017-03-29 9:16 ` Jared Lee Richardson
2017-03-29 16:00 ` Aymeric Vitte
2017-03-28 17:34 ` Johnson Lau
2017-03-28 17:46 ` Luke Dashjr
2017-03-28 20:50 ` Tom Zander
2017-03-29 4:21 ` Johnson Lau
2017-03-28 20:48 ` Tom Zander
2017-03-29 6:32 ` Bram Cohen
2017-03-29 9:37 ` Jorge Timón
2017-03-29 19:07 ` Jared Lee Richardson
2017-04-02 19:02 ` Staf Verhaegen
2017-03-29 7:49 ` Martin Lízner
2017-03-29 15:57 ` David Vorick
2017-03-29 16:08 ` Aymeric Vitte
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2017-03-29 16:18 ` David Vorick
2017-03-29 16:20 ` Andrew Johnson
2017-03-29 16:25 ` David Vorick
2017-03-29 16:41 ` Andrew Johnson
2017-03-29 17:14 ` Aymeric Vitte
2017-03-29 20:53 ` Jared Lee Richardson
2017-03-29 20:32 ` Jared Lee Richardson
2017-03-29 21:36 ` praxeology_guy
2017-03-29 22:33 ` Aymeric Vitte
2017-03-30 5:23 ` Ryan J Martin
2017-03-30 10:30 ` Tom Zander
2017-03-30 16:44 ` Jared Lee Richardson
2017-03-30 20:51 ` Jared Lee Richardson
2017-03-30 21:57 ` Tom Zander
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2017-03-30 10:13 ` Aymeric Vitte
2017-03-29 19:46 ` Jared Lee Richardson
2017-03-29 19:10 ` Jared Lee Richardson
2017-03-29 19:36 ` praxeology_guy
2017-04-02 19:12 ` Staf Verhaegen
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