Re-org depends on perspective no? Under "code is law" Bitcoin nodes are expected to follow the chain with the most work, even if the longer chain appears after a day. Anything else would be an active act of social governance.
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Replying to @muellerberndt @koeppelmann and
Correct, we are talking about social intervention here. When should we use, how fast can we use it, etc.
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Replying to @hasufl @koeppelmann and
You are treading in dangerous waters
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In practice I think you're right that some form of community governance will happen in that situation if the situation is catastrophic and a large enough percentage of the community is affected.3 replies 0 retweets 6 likes -
Replying to @muellerberndt @hasufl and
It won't be framed as such though - there will be one group shouting "consensus is decided by nodes/users so it's OK to re-org using a snapshot" and another group shouting "Nakamoto consensus is king" plus a contentious fork.
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Replying to @muellerberndt @hasufl and
What about immutability? All this years preaching the dogma and now let's use social consensus to decide what chain we like?
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Replying to @CryptoSecundus @muellerberndt and
Radical immutability serves no purpose. Bitcoin is a tool made by humans to serve humans. If it stops being useless, we need to be able to change it (and we are - we can always move to an identical copy without e.g. a bug)
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Replying to @hasufl @CryptoSecundus and
"Serves no purpose"?! WTF?! Good grief you are one of these vile creatures: https://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2006/10/hello-kitty-people.html … You have outed yourself as an enemy of Bitcoin security. Blocked.
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Replying to @NickSzabo4 @hasufl and
Nick, I'd urge you to reconsidering blocking Hasu. He's a potent and thoughtful Bitcoiner.
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Replying to @nic__carter @NickSzabo4 and
to the triggered people below: bitcoin will fail if it has no intellectual diversity. ideas need to be fought over in the market, not ignored and feared. luckily, the puritans have no control, and they're not persuasive.
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Replying to @nic__carter @NickSzabo4 and
I agree with the previous tweet but “bitcoin will fail if it has no intellectual diversity” isn’t very meaningful. Bitcoin doesn’t have intellect, it’s an asset class. Stakeholders will be diversified because.. why won’t they be? and the occasional block has nothing to do with it
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Indeed, Bitcoin influencers should remain intellectually quite distinct from altcoiners & nocoiners, otherwise we are correlated rather than anti-correlated & competing for the same financial scraps instead of with the huge advantage of new fertile territory we have so far had.
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