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I know we are pretty anti hard fork but I've heard on TFTC and a few other places that there is some bug that requires a hard fork but that it won't be a problem until... I dunno like 80 years from now or something.

I am not well versed on it, and every time it is brought up everyone kinda just goes "yeah, we've got time." So apologies if this is well known and I'm just dumb.

It does make me curious if we did need to hard fork someday if it could even be successful? Whether or not from this supposed bug, or another vulnerability. And how does ossification of a protocol fit in?

At that point how many unmanned nodes will be spun up just left on running Core in a toaster oven or something, and unable to upgrade if needed?

What happens if the protocol is no longer backwards compatible? We've seen what happens in the past, will we be any more ready in the future? Or potentially more entrenched?

As bullish as I am I still get pestered by these thoughts. So you're line of thinking is refreshing.

Challenges ahead. Either way it's worth the experiment.
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Frost Dragon 2y ago

I mean the idea is that if it’s hard fork or bust, we hard fork. But it’s a slow process. It took years for the blocksize wars to result in a hard fork. But for something absolutely essential from a purely technical perspective that doesn’t change anything about what bitcoin is fundamentally, I think we could do it.

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poe😱 2y ago

I think you're likely right. It's just dizzying sometimes really trying to think through all these avenues.

I also don't want to just confirm my biases. This seems like a great place to get a lot of inputs. At least for now.