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Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Hard fork via miner vote
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On Saturday, 20 June 2015, at 8:11 pm, Pieter Wuille wrote:
> you want full nodes that have not noticed the fork to fail rather than see a slow but otherwise functional chain.

Isn't that what the Alert mechanism is for? If these nodes continue running despite an alert telling them they're outdated, then it must be intentional.