Why Nostr? What is Njump?
2023-06-07 23:07:05
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Jorge Tim贸n [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 馃搮 Original date posted:2022-04-24 馃摑 Original message:On Sun, Apr 24, 2022 at ...

馃搮 Original date posted:2022-04-24
馃摑 Original message:On Sun, Apr 24, 2022 at 2:14 PM Anthony Towns <aj at erisian.com.au> wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 24, 2022 at 12:13:08PM +0100, Jorge Tim贸n wrote:
> > You're not even considering user resistance in your cases.
>
> Of course I am. Again:
>

No, you're relying on miners to stop bad proposals.


> > > My claim is that for *any* bad (evil, flawed, whatever) softfork, then
> > > attempting activation via bip8 is *never* superior to speedy trial,
> > > and in some cases is worse.
> > >
> > > If I'm missing something, you only need to work through a single
> example
> > > to demonstrate I'm wrong, which seems like it ought to be easy... But
> > > just saying "I disagree" and "I don't want to talk about that" isn't
> > > going to convince anyone.
>
> The "some cases" where bip8 with lot=true is *worse* than speedy trial
> is when miners correctly see that a bad fork is bad.
>
> Under *any* other circumstance, when they're used to activate a bad soft
> fork, speedy trial and bip8 are the same. If a resistance method works
> against bip8, it works against speedy trial; if it fails against speedy
> trial, it fails against bip8.
>

You're wrong.


> > Sorry for the aggressive tone, but I when people ignore some of my points
> > repeteadly, I start to wonder if they do it on purpose.
>
> Perhaps examine the beam in your own eye.
>

Yeah, whether you do that yourself or not: sorry, it's over.


> Cheers,
> aj
>
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