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Re: Bitcoin 20MB Fork
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danielpbarron
on 16/02/2015, 01:28:00 UTC

There has been several posts made about MPcoin being useless because blocks would be too slow etc...
Care to comment on that? You seem fairly confident MPcoin is going to win the "war".

Sure. It's simply a case of wishful thinking. The premise that "MPcoin blocks would be too slow" is based on the assumption that the majority of hashing power will switch to gavincoin.


It is not an assumption.  It is a prerequisite.  When the code for a hard fork is deployed, no change to the protocol actually happens until 95% or more of the hashing power (over the most recent thousand blocks) asserts via the protocol-version field in the header that they are ready and willing to convert to the new protocol.

Consequently, 'Gavincoin' as you're calling it WILL NEVER EXIST unless 95% of miners are ready and willing to abandon 'MPcoin'.

Aight cool. So there won't ever even be a 'gavincoin'.



What is sad is that they are supposedly scrambling to setup 10k nodes to prevent this hardfork

Not that I'm unamused by the mythology growing around our efforts, but this just isn't true. The pogo project is just one of many ways #bitcoin-assets is actually supporting bitcoin. We recognize that the security of the network depends on a proliferation of full nodes, and that there is a shortage of full nodes. Rather than flap our hands about codebase changes that would hinder the spread of full nodes, we are producing an inexpensive unit that anyone can plug into their router to help secure the network. And even this, you retards manage to spin as a bad thing.



Couldn't Bitcoin just do something like Clams and Start with a new BlockChain with all addresses in the first Block and get rid of that 6 years worth of Bloat?

No because screw you.