21 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 20 Mar
The IRC logs are funny to read:
01:06 sipa there has never been a hardfork, ever
exactly 22 hours later:
23:06 Luke-Jr so??? yay accidental hardfork? :x
Thanks for sharing, I really like to dig into bitcoin history.
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You can see the moment at which there was no further debate as to what to do:
23:45 DBordello What chain is Mt. Gox on 23:45 gavinandresen Eleuthria: if you can cleanly get us back on the 0.7 chain, ACK from here, too 23:45 MagicalTux DBordello: we stopped import before the fork 23:45 Eleuthria alright
Which is further evidence that it is economic nodes and not miners who control Bitcoin. In this case, there was mt. Gox with like 80% (educated guess) of the economic activity of Bitcoin at the time. So a miner (pool) switches to follow the will of the economic nodes (i.e., whichever side Mt. Gox was on), even when that one pool alone had majority hashrate (both sides combined).
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Very good piece from Bitcoin history. Thank you for remembering this.
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It is super interesting! We also added this article on all Bitcoin forks originally from BitMex Research: https://21ideas.org/en/bitcoin-forks/
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Bitcoin Core devs no longer have the respect and "strong leadership". They lost it in the Ordinals debacle (starting with allowing it in the first place, and trying to "fix" it through basically censorship). I don't dare to think what a repeat of such an event would turn into in present day.
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