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And yet, miners still had the choice whether or not to run XT. If enough did so, then isn't that a vote? If Bitcoin can't survive without centralized control
by teacup50 11y ago
And yet, miners still had the choice whether or not to run XT.
If enough did so, then isn't that a vote?
If Bitcoin can't survive without centralized control over miner software, isn't that a sign of broken decentralization?
- makomk 11y agoEnough miners did not in fact do so, and the "centralized control over miner software" was anything but - bitcoin.org pulled links to the one or two services that used XT because there was a huge amount of demand from Bitcoin users to do so, and they were making the same demands of everyone else. Also, part of the problem was that the threshold for enough miners was intentionally set dangerously low. If it had succeeded then I'd say it would be a sign that Bitcoin was fundamentally broken and couldn't survive without centralized control, but it didn't.