On 09/15/2017 01:40 PM, Simone Bronzini wrote: > Since a soft-fork is a restriction of the consensus rules, I think the > only way to have an un-soft-forkable cryptocurrency is creating a > cryptocurrency where no transaction is valid. > > Imagine I build a very minimal cryptocurrency where in the transaction > output you only indicate the public key to send your coins to and the > amount. One can still soft-fork it by deciding that, from now on, only > even amounts are valid or only public keys that are a multiple of 10 are > valid.
sure, but in this scenario how would one meaningfully "upgrade" the functionality, eg add a new opcode? We couldn't, right? so.... success! Preventing new functionality is the primary goal of this thought experiment. I believe that common sense and market incentives would prevent arbitrary tightening of the rules for no good reason... _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing list bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
