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Developers of the core protocol would notice, add a flag and then miners/clients/exchanges who want to remain with the same dev team can signal they want to fol
by capableweb 5y ago
Developers of the core protocol would notice, add a flag and then miners/clients/exchanges who want to remain with the same dev team can signal they want to follow the "dev" chain instead of the "miner" chain.
Usually forks have checkpoints as well so things can't change willy-nilly.
- jstanley 5y agoIf blocks in the "miner" chain break the rules of the "dev" chain, then no flag is required. You'll automatically stick with the chain that contains valid blocks, as determined by the implementation that you're running.
- brighton36 5y agoEventually the us government will decide what codebase is valid. And exchanges will immediately switch to that codebase. Probably that codebase will support kyc and whitelist/blacklist functions. Bitcoin is fiat. It doesn't have 79 protons in it's nucleus.