- soft forks without consensus result in a chainsplit
- bcash was a hard fork with minority support so it trended to zero
- more people should use their own bitcoin node, they can run whatever software they want
- if the desire is to try to push through a soft fork with legal threats that is lame as fuck and will probably fail
Not every soft fork leads to a chain split. While Taproot and Segwit have dissent, they havenβt resulted in a split.
Thereβs a non-zero probability that CSAM on nodes can be outlawed, which canβt help adoption.
While everyone can run their own node, not everyone is savvy enough to patch their bitcoin software, unless you make a highly customizable version.
every soft fork has had overwhelming consensus
if one does not it will result in a chainsplit
Not necessarily.
Chain splitting will only occur if the minority enforces new rules that the majority rejects.
If the majority enforces the new rules, the minority can still use the old rules
Orphaning blocks the majority of miners recognize for its economic incentive will result in a chain split from the minority. The debate was over when over 50% of hash rate was in favor of higher OP_Returns. I do not see a world where this doesn't end with 2 chains. Tread the waters carefully because your PoW is stored on the chain that has the hashrate consensus.
Not really.
One can run Core 29 and stay in consensus indefinitely, or at least until they stop supporting it
