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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
by
BitUsher
on 19/04/2016, 17:40:54 UTC
Last July there was a 6-block reorganization of the blockchain, the third largest in bitcoin's history.  It was caused by a blocthed soft fork.

Nope, It was caused by SPV mining which is insecure and at minimum ill advised.

Hard forks are not more dangerous than soft-forks.  One can argue that they in fact safer, because they must be executed openly and be accepted in advance by a large segment of the users.  

While we may disagree with the intrinsic dangers one can compare between HF and SF's from a technical perspective, I can also add that it is a fantastic precedent that we are making HF's rare and difficult to accomplish from a "governance" perspective. soft forks which allow upgrading without throwing old users/software/Hardware off the network is a fantastic precedence.

I would like to thank you for your contributions Jorge Stolfi. It is extremely re-assuring that a buttcoiner who hates bitcoin* is so angry at the direction we are headed. We should all be bullish.

*Yes, I know you insist you don't hate bitcoin and are merely offering "helpful" guidance and advice. Your history and actions suggest otherwise however and it is pretty easy to verify you get sadistic pleasure off of attacking bitcoin on the buttcoin subreddit.