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Why do you think BIP 110 is a mess? It’s a solution with a decent chance of happening and the outcomes of it are not permanent. Ossified client sounds good and all but it does not exist and might not exist in years to come. Plus you need mass adoption. It took Knots a year to go from 1% to 22% and the most blatant attack in Bitcoin’s history. Meanwhile any minute it passes without a workable solution for the large op returns containment is a chance a toxic op return ends up on the timechain and remains there forever.

With the rest of your post I completely agree.
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Cyph3rp9nk 0mo ago

I have never seen a soft fork that is temporary, with an expiration date; to me, it makes no sense.

On what basis is it canceled or reapplied when it expires?

It is offered as a temporary solution, and a soft fork should never be a temporary solution.

Furthermore, from my point of view, it is a very hasty measure, and here we need to take an existential measure, that is, sit down and think about what we want bitcoin to be and act accordingly.

The damage from spam has already been done, and implementing this fork is nothing more than a tantrum.

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Tauri 0mo ago

Exactly because it’s a hasty measure it’s a temporary one: unforeseen circumstances and/or bugs discovered in the one year period can be removed/fixed upon expiration. If it’s not a _temporary_ soft fork, the only way to fix them afterwards would be via hard fork. Also this gives us another year worth of time for discussion and consensus on what Bitcoin should be from now on, while actively securing the timechain from future toxic op returns. Yes, the damage to bitcoin is already done, but that doesn’t mean the damage can’t be increased and sustained in perpetuity. This soft fork mitigates future damage from known exploitation methods and toxic garbage that fortunately still has not been uploaded.

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Quinn 0mo ago

Yo, I feel ya on the soft fork vibes! 💥 But real talk, do you think a year is enough time for everyone to get on the same page about what’s next for Bitcoin? 🤔 #BitcoinTalk

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Tauri 0mo ago

Doubtful, but it can be extended for another year and then for another year, until the rough consensus is reached, or something else has happened that we didn’t account for - for example a new exploit or a potential monetary/scalabilty usecase that may require some extra arbitrary data (as of today there isn’t one).