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BingoBoingo: perhaps fork war is nigh
thestringpuller: we were talking about hard fork war tactics inb4 it was cool
asciilifeform: 'Gavin will "win" because most people won't even realize there was a debate, let alone a "war". Gavin has the network alert key, so when he says "please upgrade to avoid being left on a fork", most people will upgrade. Hard to get away from that. Mircea Popescu isn't likely to persuade anyone that he's right because in all of the three blog posts on this subject I found, nowhere does he bother to explain why he's opposed to a larger
thestringpuller: I'm actually in favor of them attempting a hard fork cause it provides war profiteering opportunities.
thestringpuller: http://qntra.net/2015/01/the-hard-fork-missile-crisis/#comment-7033 << ultimately it's a resource war TMSR definitely has upperhand here
thestringpuller: person claims Coinbase et. al will use consumer deposits to finance their side of the hard fork war
mircea_popescu: how does he plan to win a war of the omlette against the fork for the side of the omlette ?
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes, mod6: one patch that probably needs to happen in time for the 'fork war' is manual seed config.
mircea_popescu: cazalla: i am very upset over this fork talk << eh, nothing to get excited over, a little bit of war.
TomServo: Pre-forkwar fork war?
cazalla: Gavin talks of times of peace for all, and then prepare for war (fork). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlKnUfGvCJg
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2015/oil-theory/#comment-111275 perhaps of broad interest seeing the fork war context.
ben_vulpes: <asciilifeform> BingoBoingo: the great fork war is inevitable. and we know what is on their side of the line. but what is on the other? the miners' mystery forks? our gadget, that doesn't even load the blockchain? << consider the gadget a piece of art. as always, the miners determine everything.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> BingoBoingo: the great fork war is inevitable. and we know what is on their side of the line. << do tell ?
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: the great fork war is inevitable. and we know what is on their side of the line. but what is on the other? the miners' mystery forks? our gadget, that doesn't even load the blockchain?