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801d · Bitcoin Cash
Another breaking change by BCH. Being forced to upgrade BCH node again...
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Spicy opinion 🔥
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Live stream for those interested -

https://m.youtube.com/live/vIUEL_2fiac
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That's a good thing, right?
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I mean soft forks are worse than hard forks. But IMO all forks are bad.
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Well not if they improve stuff
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^this

"failing to fork & improve" is how you get ossified broken BTC
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In a perfect world one codebase handles all possible needs, so everyone accepts it. In a real world, you cannot expect that all people pull in the same direction. Sooner or later there
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will be so much disagreement that groups will naturally go their own ways because there is no way to agree anymore, and the disagreement is too expensive to handle without the split.
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Sometimes one group will fail, sometimes the two groups create such different products that two needs are met by the two products that one product could not meet on its own.
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I agree that when possible in practice, it is best to avoid splits, so the splits can be seen as an "evil". But I don't think it is reasonable to say they are always a bad thing.
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again
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What happened?
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annual scheduled network upgrade
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2023-05-15 / BCH upgrade / break change
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Come on..
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Not everyone wants the rules of the system up for a vote every 12 months. I know that's controversial.
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I agree that consensus changes can be breaking & with time they should become less frequent & severe until finally ossification. No crypto is ossofied yet. More work is needed.
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> No crypto is ossofied yet

*cough* BTC *cough*
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Not to mention BSV: As recent as a couple of months ago hardforked in a rather radical feature - coin confiscation w.o. private keys. Absolute garbage scam!
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When did this happen?
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Earlier this year. Its called "OP_CourtOrder" I believe.
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Yikes
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LOL. That's kinda hilarious.
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Yes it is
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Thats a lie. Calling it softforks and than continue to fork in complicated tech dept ..cough...Segwit...Taproot...cough... you know :-)
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So you also don't upgrade the node version when there are improvements beyond consensus? Like validation speed up or improved RPC stuff, bug fixes etc.?
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Read.Cash also derailed, for the moment.
This method of coercing people to comply with someone's whimsies
has odors usually accompanied by flavors of last night's leftover vomit.
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read.cash is up and running again incl. tipping etc.
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Indeed, all good again,
ready to compete even more seriously with all that other rubbish out there.