Author: Adam Back 2015-12-17 21:31:07
Published on: 2015-12-17T21:31:07+00:00
The discussion on moving towards a world with hard-fork only upgrades, while interesting, is not deemed feasible at the moment. The focus is on reaching consensus by being pragmatic and constructive. Mixing in what-ifs or long-standing problems will only make it more complicated. Jeff Garzik of bitcoin-dev explains that soft forks degrade the security of non-upgraded nodes. In contrast, the core design of Bitcoin is that trustless nodes validate the work of miners rather than trust them. Soft-forked features lean heavily on miner trust rather than P2P network validation.
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