Quote from: Nicolas Dorier on May 11, 2016, 03:48:38 AM

Quote from: hdbuck on May 10, 2016, 09:11:09 AM

forks are raping the network's integrity.

whether you like it hard or soft doesnt matter.

You can't believe that what you said is true without at the same time believing users should have the right to force miner which transaction to put into their blocks.

A soft fork is only about miners agreeing to add rules to what they consider a valid transaction. As long as you think miners are free to choose the transactions in their block, then you support soft fork.

Wat? users incentivize miners to put this or that transaction into their block by actually paying a fee.

Soft fork gives colluded miners the power to bend the protocol rules according to this or that centrally planned agreement. And by doing so they shamelessly cheat the network's integrity to enforce non backward compatible rules that will furthermore maliciously blend in along with the transactions they proceed.

Protocol change must be universally agreed upon by the whole network to be legit. Bitcoin isnt about playing politicians here, with roundtables and bribes or what not. Soft forks are a devious way to contort the rules without consensus. If you were so confident about the relevance of the VC market pull "upgrades" you are so eager to shove down the protocol's throat, then you should propose a hard fork it and see how your altcoin goes.