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Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 19:30:22 +0100
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Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP 2 promotion to Final
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On Mar 10, 2016 17:28, "Mustafa Al-Bassam" <mus@musalbas.com> wrote:
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> The fact that it takes very little time and effort to prevent a BIP from
reaching final status, means that in an base of millions of users it's
guaranteed that some disgruntled or bored person out there will attack it,
even if it's for the lulz.

I still fail to see the harm caused by this attack. At some point the
attacker will get bored of laughing even if the attack has a small costs
(which I'm not that sure it is).

> To reasonably expect that any hark fork - including an uncontroversial
one - will be adapted by every single person in a ecosystem of millions of
people, is wishful thinking and the BIP may as well say "hard fork BIPs
shall never reach final status."

This is what seem to have happened with uncontroversial softforks in the
past. Why is wishful thinking to expect the same for uncontroversial
hardforks?

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<p dir=3D"ltr"><br>
On Mar 10, 2016 17:28, &quot;Mustafa Al-Bassam&quot; &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:=
mus@musalbas.com">mus@musalbas.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; The fact that it takes very little time and effort to prevent a BIP fr=
om reaching final status, means that in an base of millions of users it&#39=
;s guaranteed that some disgruntled or bored person out there will attack i=
t, even if it&#39;s for the lulz.</p>
<p dir=3D"ltr">I still fail to see the harm caused by this attack. At some =
point the attacker will get bored of laughing even if the attack has a smal=
l costs (which I&#39;m not that sure it is).</p>
<p dir=3D"ltr">&gt; To reasonably expect that any hark fork - including an =
uncontroversial one - will be adapted by every single person in a ecosystem=
 of millions of people, is wishful thinking and the BIP may as well say &qu=
ot;hard fork BIPs shall never reach final status.&quot;</p>
<p dir=3D"ltr">This is what seem to have happened with uncontroversial soft=
forks in the past. Why is wishful thinking to expect the same for uncontrov=
ersial hardforks?</p>

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