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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Stop fuckin' around, fork the son-of-a-bitch already.
by
franky1
on 22/09/2016, 11:48:41 UTC
need you forget what happens after the grace period.
miners are then satisfied that atleast OVER 95% of nodes have the rules ready... then the miners do their own flagging and consensus mechanism over another block measure.
Miners don't care about the situation with the node count. The number of nodes in a small period of time is a horrible metric as it can be easily manipulated.

seriously wake up to reality and join the conversation, get out of the fantasy doomsday nightmare that is not reality and start thinking rationally about how things will work in the real world.
Ad hominem.

miners wont jump first, they will wait for users.
Again, the "users" that run nodes are a small minority. There's no way to properly "wait for users" as there's no way to "measure these users".

"users" refers to nodes that are not mining. not the physically breathing and eating and pooping human at the computer
also its the nodes that do the validating, that could lose a miner alot of income if the miner jumped first and made blocks that other pools reject and users full nodes reject.. so they do care about users nodes.
EG imagine if no merchant/exchange was using the same rules as the miner.. the miner cant then spend their income.
think about it. in a waking reality.

wait..
let me guess your subtly hinting that the node decentralization doesnt matter and you think that 6000 nodes is irrelevant and we should just have 1 node? or wil you backtrack and admit that the nodes do an important job.