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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Bitcoin 20MB Fork
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Cryddit
on 20/03/2015, 19:47:06 UTC

If you're not explicitly for the bloat fork, you are against it.


This is bluntly wrong.  Read the 'agnostic/dgaf' votes as people who will go with whatever works and wins.  If the code for a fork is deployed, they'll go right on mining - possibly with new software that advertises a new block version, or possibly without updating.  If their client tells them that the majority of blocks out there are a new version and they risk being on the losing side of a fork if they don't upgrade, they'll upgrade, 'cause they don't want to be on the losing side of a fork.  If the software they upgrade to advertises a new block version, they don't give a crap but that could easily push support from 50% (where they got the warning) to 75% (where a >1Mbyte block can actually be formed).

And if they find themselves on the losing side of a fork with majority hashing power already supporting a different chain, they will FIX THE PROBLEM immediately by updating. 

'agnostic/dgaf' means that a choice between these options is not going to be the motivation that causes these people to do anything.  A risk of being on the losing side of a fork would certainly be a motivation they'd respond to.  Having some other reason to upgrade to the next version (or just upgrading because upgrading is "normal") is also something they'd do.  They just don't give a crap whether, by so doing, they choose one block size limit or another.