Quote from: muyuu on October 08, 2015, 04:09:43 PM

Quote from: JorgeStolfi on October 08, 2015, 04:07:03 PM

Quote from: hdbuck on October 08, 2015, 03:50:57 PM

Quote from: JorgeStolfi on October 08, 2015, 03:45:30 PM

Then the hard fork would be a non-event and NOTHING bad would happen from it.

lol, a hard fork being a "non-event"..
sounds like a true acaderpic. Roll Eyes

Yes, "hard forks are terrible things" is part of the FUD that Blockstream created.

Maybe because they invented the concept of "soft fork", namely a change in the protocol that is deployed by the devs without the community being told about it; and that fits better with the time-honored hacker's approach to software project management.

They didn't. Gavin did.

I stand corrected. But it is Blockstream who is "selling" soft forks as if they were completely safe and different from hard forks, even though there is no technical diffrerence between them -- especially since the possibility of miners cheating, hiding, or changing their mind about their preferences, before and after the fork, is no longer just a theoretical possibility.