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> it sounds less a 51% attack and more like miners voting against something that isn't in their interest We also used to call this situation a potential "fork"
by tom_mellior 6y ago
> it sounds less a 51% attack and more like miners voting against something that isn't in their interest
We also used to call this situation a potential "fork" (as in, the thing with two prongs) before the word "fork" was somehow redefined to mean "protocol update everyone agrees on, with a linear history without any prongs".
- crazypython 6y agoEthereum developers are hard forking Ethereum, but 51% of the hashpower disagrees and doesn't want to go with the hard fork.
- hanniabu 6y agoYup, it's a combination of new people not understanding it and media slander dirtying the word that has caused it to be avoided because it's gained a bad connotation.
- viraptor 6y agoIt's still a fork in both cases. One path is taken by almost noone, but it's still an open possibility to keep it alive.
- JAM1971 6y agoYup. See: ETH Classic.