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From: Ariel Luaces <arielluaces@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2021 18:18:29 -0800
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On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 12:25 PM Michael Folkson via bitcoin-dev
<bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> At this point in time it also appears the greatest risk to Taproot
> dying a slow death is a small group of developers who think talking in
> conservative tones and talking about endless philosophy makes Bitcoin
> a conservative system. (It doesn=E2=80=99t, it just makes it a dying, dec=
aying
> one).

The current risk to taproot and all future activations is a loud
minority of users who are threatening to co-opt a LOT=3Dfalse activation
by switching the parameter and organizing a marketing blitz that could
end in a fork if things don't go well.
As long as that threat persists consensus won't be reached. Then an
activation client probably won't be released because I don't expect
many devs will have an appetite for writing code that either doesn't
have consensus or code that will be manipulated into creating
consensus conflicts.
I think Bitcoin is fine staying as is until that minority forks off
with their own alt-node. If the UASF minority is dead set on creating
the alt-node then I only hope it's released quickly so the deadlock
can break. A quick UASF fork allows for an early LOT=3Dfalse activation.

Cheers
Ariel Lorenzo-Luaces

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