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Soft-fork activation through bitcoind competition

Or: how to activate Drivechain.

Imagine a world in which there are 10 different bitcoind flavors, as described in bitcoind decentralization.

Now how do you enable a soft-fork?

Flavor 1 enables it. Seeing that nothing bad happened, flavor 2 enables it. Then flavor 3 enables it.

And so on.

When what is perceived by miners to be a big chunk of support for the proposal, a miner can try to mine a block that contains the new feature.

No need for a flag day or a centralized decision making process that depends on one or two courageous leaders to enable a timer.


This probably sounds silly, and maybe is.

This article on Nostr

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