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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Think about the "decentralization" of bitcoin from seven different aspects
by
Zedpastin
on 10/08/2021, 09:45:42 UTC
alot of people think the 'independant user full nodes' and 'the custodial service non mining full node' have power/voting. but.. if the devs and merchants want to change things.. they can. and users then become less than full nodes blindly accepting data they cant fully validate for all rules. meaning users are forced to upgrade to stay able to transact and spend as true full nodes

take 2017 events
first there was the dev&miner campaign.. this only got 45% vote for upgrade from nov 2016-june 2017
because alot of merchants and users hesitated/declined and 55% of mining pools declined

however june-july2017. devs colluded with merchants (NYA) and threatened pools that anyblocks not conforming to new formet. the merchants would disregard/reject
within weeks mining pools suddenly seen the threat of lost/ignored/invalid rewards so majority accepting the
(NYA)
within weeks of that, old blocks(vetoing) were disregarded which allowed for in unprecedented 100% vote locking in the new change

all without any input from the user/custodian nodes

You are right but independent full nodes do have voting rights until they are taken away by the developers. It is not wrong to say that independent full nodes do have voting rights because they do but they can be overruled and taken away at any time by the developers developing the code.