[Bitcoin-development] Handling miner adoption gracefully for embedded consensus systems via double-spending/replace-by-fee

Luke-Jr luke at dashjr.org
Mon Mar 24 21:17:13 UTC 2014


On Saturday, March 22, 2014 8:47:02 AM Peter Todd wrote:
> To make a long story short, it was soon suggested that Bitcoin Core be
> forked - the software, not the protocol - and miners encouraged to
> support it.

There's been at least one public miner-oriented fork of Bitcoin Core since 0.7 
or earlier. Miners still running vanilla Bitcoin Core are neglecting their 
duty to the community. That being said, the more forks, the better for 
decentralisation.

Luke




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