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Re: The real disastor that could happen (forking Bitcoin)...
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xyzzy099
on 02/02/2016, 20:45:47 UTC
Meanwhile, anyone who actually gives a damn about understanding the issue will still have access to the link I posted.

Many understands the statistic thats why conservative value of 75% is choosen so you cant claim the change is tiggered by minority, or to be exact, there is real chance of this happening by variance.


At anything less than 70% of steady hashrate, triggering a fork would take at least 6 years, and gets exponentially less likely as miner share decreases.


I can only assume you didn't read the link to OrganOfCorti's blog I posted, since he demonstrates quite rigorously how that can, in fact, happen.

http://organofcorti.blogspot.com/2015/08/bip101-implementation-flaws.html