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Re: Bitcoin 20MB Fork
by
DooMAD
on 09/03/2015, 09:42:04 UTC
GigaBloatCoin has far less than the required 95% support and is thus not going to happen.  Quick, sell all your BTC before they become worthless hipster curiosities!   Grin
And where did you get the 95% support from? Hmmm?

http://gavintech.blogspot.de/2015/01/twenty-megabytes-testing-results.html

"Current rules if no consensus as measured by block.nVersion supermajority.
Supermajority defined as: 800 of last 1000 blocks have block.nVersion == 4"

Once that thing is going live, you're just going to get dragged by nose into it.

Thanks for the correction.  But the Pro side is only running 60%, far short of the required 80% minimum.

If you honestly believe that any future adopters of bitcoin will share your views, then you really are just the embodiment of the elitist who thinks they can have their cake and eat it.  If you want to be one of the elites, then you have to accept that as more people join, you're going to become more and more of a minority.  New users aren't going to want the same thing you do.  Why would they want to support a chain that won't support them?  Either that, or you have to admit that you want to burn the bridge behind you and make Bitcoin intentionally unattractive to new users, which sounds like the direction you're heading in.  It's inevitable that sooner or later there will be a tipping point.  That current 60% will be at least 80% sooner than you might think.  You're already losing and you'll be losing by a bigger margin with every new user.