Hey Luke, Is this possible? We can't recognize those blocks?
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Interested to hear Luke’s thoughts on that thread. 👆
This drivechain system seems to a private group of miners passing messages to each other, storing data in the base chain. They seem to be following the “rules”.
The drivechain proposal is overly complicated (with unknown long term consequences), but probably unstoppable if all current nodes will accept the data.
Let’s hope this is benign because if following the protocol rules is an attack, then bitcoin is fundamentally broken.
Rejecting valid blocks is not following the rules
It's an attack, not a softfork.
And it can be recognized.
*Worst case* it might require a PoW change to stop, but there's plenty of tools before that too
So Paul has failed to realize that the reason hard forks are hard is because of consensus with other nodes. Now he thinks his BIP 300 group is enough to hard fork off the rest of the network because he doesn't think the rest of the network willl URSF, I feel he's dead fucking wrong and I'm putting my money where my mouth is.
Miners are paid security. Don't follow the rules, don't get paid.