[Bitcoin-segwit2x] Bitcoin Cash's mandatory replay protection - an example for B2X

Please remove me from this mailing list. This project and its supporters are a joke. On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 6:09 PM Peter Todd via Bitcoin-segwit2x < bitcoin-segwit2x at lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 09:02:25AM -0700, Jared Lee Richardson wrote: > > Right now between signalling and signatories, btc1 has ~95% of the > > hashpower. ~5% of the hashpower is not enough to be viable without a > > hardfork, in which case it would be more appropriate and less damaging > for > > The signalling has been done by mining *pools*, not hashing power. > > We do not know what the views of the hashing power are; hashing power is > free > to move from one pool to another, and can do so in a matter of minutes. > > Equally, even if Bitcoin was left with just 5% of the hashing power, and > B2X > with 95%, that situation still allows for coins to be bought and sold, > with an > unknown outcome. The Ethereum chain was left with even less hashing power > immediately after the bailout fork - nearly 0% - but hashing power rapidly > moved from the bailout chain back to the Ethereum chain in response to > market > demand. > > -- > https://petertodd.org 'peter'[:-1]@petertodd.org > _______________________________________________ > Bitcoin-segwit2x mailing list > Bitcoin-segwit2x at lists.linuxfoundation.org > https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-segwit2x > -- John C Bitcoin Error Log www.bitcoinerrorlog.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-segwit2x/attachments/20170725/e976ba3d/attachment.html>