10 sats \ 0 replies \ @cointastical 21 Mar freebie \ on: Analyzing the 2013 Bitcoin fork bitcoin
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
http://bitcoinstats.com/irc/bitcoin-dev/logs/2013/03/11#l1363045508.0
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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