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How would that even work? Nobody can force you to run a piece of code against your will. EDIT: I guess you could rules-lawyer about the meaning of "majority" b
by nightpool 4y ago
How would that even work? Nobody can force you to run a piece of code against your will.
EDIT: I guess you could rules-lawyer about the meaning of "majority" but like... you don't even need a majority of users to start a fork! Two people is enough to start a fork. There's nothing preventing me from starting a fork of Bitcoin today and mining/trading it among my friends. It's just that normally people feel compelled to go along with what the majority is doing
- bombcar 4y agoSee the Etherium rollback/fork and the Bitcoin/Bitcoin Cash fork for examples. If enough people on the blockchain decide to update their code to do something different, you either fork or move with them.
- nightpool 4y agoI think you're confused, I'm asking how what the GP said (a blockchain where a fork couldn't happen) could ever be possible.
- bombcar 4y agoAh, you'd have to have some form of central authority that "signs" the official "code" which would defeat the point of a blockchain anyway.
- maxerickson 4y agoThat's the point. Code isn't law.