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How many of the miners know how to evaluate updates? Most of these miners I read about, they bought some expensive hardware and just plugged it in. Is there so
by pjbrunet 13y ago
How many of the miners know how to evaluate updates? Most of these miners I read about, they bought some expensive hardware and just plugged it in. Is there some evaluation period before updates go live? Also, what if a seemingly innocuous change has unforeseen consequences? Nothing like Bitcoin has ever existed.
- RoboTeddy 13y agoSo far, changes seem to happen fairly slowly. Things are discussed ahead of time. Some kinds of changes are proposed ahead of time in the form of a BIP (Bitcoin Improvement Proposal) -- https://github.com/bitcoin/bips https://github.com/bitcoin/bips. Even tiny changes, that seem entirely reasonable to me, can generate controversy. Core developers ask each other to acknowledge each pull request. If the developers tried to push something through that many miners wouldn't like, I'm confident people would notice and it would cause a large outcry. > Seemingly innocuous changes can indeed have unforseen consequences. The core Bitcoin developers seem conservative, reasonable, skilled, and they test things quite heavily. That said, changes are risky, and they've caused problems in the past. Bitcoin is risky!
- hendzen 13y agoPool operators are usually quite savvy. Most miners will just do whatever their pool decides on.