On Tuesday 02 March 2021 18:22:35 Ariel Lorenzo-Luaces via bitcoin-dev wrote: > I'm realizing that a clear advantage of LOT=false is that it can happen > without the need for a social movement. All that is really needed is the > convincing of 95% miners. Apathetic users will never notice any kind of > service disruption no matter the success or failure of the activation. This > is obviously why it naturally became the default activation method.
No. Miners enforcing rules without the social support is a 51% attack, not a softfork. > While LOT=true, on the other hand, must be able to 51% the blockchain to > win the apathetic users. But then the reorgs will not be pretty. Or if it > ever clearly gets over the 51% hurdle then all apathetic users now need to > scramble to use the rogue client to be safe from reorgs. Either way it's > disruptive. No, LOT=True doesn't do this. It only happens if miners choose to create an invalid chain, which they could do at any time with or without a softfork involved. Luke _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing list bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
