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Re: Bitcoin XT has code which downloads your IP address to facilitate blacklisting
by
canth
on 26/08/2015, 12:39:44 UTC
So you completely missed the entire point of what I said ... the issue is they are using a too low 75% ...

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BIP101 activates *only* if XT has >75% of hashing power.
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False.

Bitcoin mining is random statistics.
It's not 10 minutes per block, every block.

Edit: and to give an example:
My pool mined 17 blocks at under 30% difficulty - yep luck was on a roll when that happened.
At the time, if there was any voting happening, for that period of time my pool would have effectively voted at over 300% of it's hash power.

Have you actually done the math? The likelihood that luck plays a major part in 750/1000 blocks is not high at all. http://bitco.in/forum/threads/triggering-the-bip101-fork-early-with-less-than-75-miners.13/