"Malicipus miners" or not, a split is a split. People like me would have followed the non-bip148 chain voluntarily.
There are 3 types of users: 1) users who actively supported BIP148 2) users who were aware but not supportive-including many pro-Segwit users. some prefered BIP149. 3) users who were completely unaware BIP148 were coercive & hurt groups 2 & 3. There's nothing "soft" about it.
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You keep saying "a majority of users supported BIP148", but the truth is that there was no reliable way to measure this, beyond the r/bitcoin tiny community and unreliable Twitter polls- which have biased samples given the inherent nature of Twitter.
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Also, of the users polled, not only did a majority support BIP148, but those who did not also either opposed Segwit in general, or said they would support BIP148 if Core released it in an official release. So BIP148 effectively had almost same community support as Segwit itself.
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Now I'm not going to say there weren't exceptions to this, but those who supported Segwit, and opposed BIP148 of their own decision-making (ie, not simply deferring to "whatever Core does") were a very small group.
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1/ Again, there are so many problems with the so called “user polls”. For examples:
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2/ Confirmation bias: those who follow you tend to agree with you - note that even if an independent party started the poll it can quickly turn biased as soon as one influencer with large following retweets.
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3/ Sampling bias: does r/Bitcoin and Twitter crypto truly represent the collective will of all Bitcoin users? Chances are the answer is no.
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4/ Even if there is a way to ask every Bitcoin user, would that necessarily produce a good poll? the truth is that most users are not qualified to make technical judgements. Do we poll users on how to build bridges / nuclear generators?
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5/ Many were just frustrated / impatient with the stalemate and willing to go with the 1st solution you give them, whatever that might be. Otoh, a number of Core Devs- who actually understood the full implications of BIP148- were on the fence about BIP148.https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/6ef7wb/some_comments_on_the_bip148_uasf_from_the/ …
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Even if coercive, it hurt nobody.
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