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> it's obvious that Proof-of-Work has not been used to decide consensus protocol parameters Every "soft-fork" to date has used PoW to activate new consensus ru
by dontbelieveyou 11y ago
> it's obvious that Proof-of-Work has not been used to decide consensus protocol parameters
Every "soft-fork" to date has used PoW to activate new consensus rules by requiring block version super-majority.
- kanzure 11y ago> Every "soft-fork" to date has used PoW to activate new consensus rules Consensus rule parameters are things like "max block size". However, there have been some proposals for extension blocks to increase block size without requiring a hard-fork (e.g. using a soft-fork mechanism).