Hi Michael,

Agree with almost everything.

> Miner signaling is a tool for signaling readiness. It is not voting for the 
> soft fork or expressing support for the soft fork. There should not be any 
> attempt to facilitate miner signaling until there is sufficient community 
> consensus (the mining community is a subset of the community) on the soft 
> fork. 

This is really important which gets ignored. I wish there was a way to solve 
this problem in a way that it is not misinterpreted by users.

During signalling for taproot, there were lots of users in different 
communities that believed miners are voting for taproot and we need some 
percentage of miners to agree before making any changes in Bitcoin. It was not 
just non-technical users but few mining pools, exchanges etc. also considered 
miners signaling as some voting process.

Best I could do at that moment was share this link: 
https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/97043/is-there-an-active-list-of-bips-currently-open-for-voting/

However I am sure there are lot of people who still think miners vote during 
signaling. Opinions of few developers on MASF vs UASF also adds more confusion 
to this thing. I could not think of any solution to solve this problem.
-- 
Prayank

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