So it is ok if others start a fork using UASF or Core developers getting their way.
False equivalence.
Arguable. BIP141 is fine and perfectly legitimate if it activates as intended. 148, however, is an entirely different proposition and I'll throw in one of the OP's own quotes from much earlier in the scaling conflict to explain what I mean by that:
Activating a hardfork based on what miners do is really bad. You could easily have a situation where 75% of miners support XT but none of the big Bitcoin exchanges or businesses do. Then miners would start mining coins that they couldn't spend anywhere useful, and SPV users would find that they can't transact with the businesses they want to deal with. The currency would be split, and in this case XT would be in a far weaker position than Bitcoin. The possibility of this sort of network/currency split is what makes XT not a "legitimate hardfork", but rather the programmed creation of an altcoin (*). A consensus hardfork can only go forward once it has been determined that it's nearly impossible for the Bitcoin economy to split in any significant way. Not every Bitcoin user on Earth has to agree, but enough that there won't be a noticeable split.
Bitcoin is not ruled by miners. In a hardfork, miners barely matter at all. (Softforks are different.) What's important is what the economy does.
(*) bolded emphasis mine
BIP148 is
far more likely to result in a forced and contentious split than 141 is, with all of the associated drawbacks listed above. The economy and miners have to be in agreement with 141. Whereas with 148, it's not a true consensus if you have to effectively disregard the users securing the chain by mining it. It might be
called a soft fork, but it is almost guaranteed to result in a hardfork. So a comparison with Bitmain's proposed hardfork is apt in my personal view.
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Care to explain what option you support then?
Perhaps it might be an idea to take the layout of the
giant image and make a post or thread collating everyone's own preferences for each proposal.
| BIP141 | BIP148 | BIP149 | SegWit2x | Extension Blocks | SegWit Adaptive/BIP106 | BU/EC | Bitmaincoin |
| DooMAD | Acceptable | No | Weak | Acceptable | Deficient | Prefer | No | Fuck No |
| next person | etc | etc | etc | etc | etc | etc | etc | no |
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If anyone wants me to add them,
see this new thread and please post in the specified format (preferably still in the code tags).