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Ultimately you'd have to decide which one you want to treat as the canonical chain. There would be two (or more) parallel histories, and users would have to fig
by Taek 6y ago
Ultimately you'd have to decide which one you want to treat as the canonical chain. There would be two (or more) parallel histories, and users would have to figure out which one they wanted to follow.
By default, all users would go along with the original chain. To follow the chain with the updated rules (whatever rules the developers couldn't agree on), a user would have to manually opt-in to that updated set of rules.
- setr 6y agowell, that, or the primary client decides a direction and forces it onto everyone as soon as they update... :)
- sieabahlpark 6y agoThank goodness it's decentralized then
- Taek 6y agoA lot of blockchain clients (including Bitcoin) have no auto update feature.