The day will come when core will stealthily introduce an increase in the supply of bitcoins and you will all rush to install the new version and accept the new rules 😂 .
Currently there is no consensus, except for what Luke can do for himself in knots which has a lot of merit.
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This is consensus, although many clients use libtorrent as an implementation, there are also many that use their own implementation compatible with the bittorrent protocol.
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I disagree.
Even if we ignore knots.
Core must stay in consensus with previous versions. Alot of people run very old versions for this particular reason.
Miners may take longer to update to new rules as they often don't rubn block validation to save time.
I feel that risk is overblown. A fork by governments trying to use the IBIT honeypot is more likely.
Merge PR 29778
No harm in trying
You are 100% right. I hate to repeat myself, but no bitcoin no tech no nothing will save lazy and retarded people (99.99% of humanity) from being enslaved and abused all the time. I did not say nobody though. And that somebody is a good and smart king, necessarily a male. I don't even have to give examples because I can list all such known kings: Ashoka, Ayutthaya dynasty, King Taksin, Chakri dynasty, and Trump if he finds a way to rule for another 40 years at least. That is it. Everything and everyone else were either outright evil, failures, or not born with karma strong enough. Well, there might have been some small tribes here and there, but I am also such a tribe, but history won't remember me, just like them, because of size.
Change of that magnitude won't go unnoticed so I doubt all parties involved will allow for such destruction to happen. Such significant changes will start a consensus debate.
I always stay a couple of versions behind to be safe
It's crazy to me libbitcoin doesn't receive more attention
