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Whatever their failings from their previous code or their adversarial
nature, they got this code right and I'm only presenting it as a real and
excellent solution for the impending threat to bitcoin. As a big core fan,
I really wanted to delete the word Cash from my post because I was afraid
someone would turn this technical discussion into a political football.
On Nov 2, 2017 7:37 PM, "Gregory Maxwell" <greg@xiph.org> wrote:
On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 11:31 PM, Scott Roberts via bitcoin-dev
<bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> Bitcoin cash will hard fork on Nov 13 to implement a new difficulty
> algorithm. Bitcoin itself might need to hard fork to employ a similar
> algorithm. It's about as good as they come because it followed the
This is the bitcoin development mailing list, not the "give free
review to the obviously defective proposals of adversarial competing
systems" mailing list. Your posting is off-topic.
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<div dir=3D"auto"><div>Whatever their failings from their previous code or =
their adversarial nature, they got this code right and I'm only present=
ing it as a real and excellent solution for the impending threat to bitcoin=
. As a big core fan, I really wanted to delete the word Cash from my post b=
ecause I was afraid someone would turn this technical discussion into a pol=
itical football.<br><div class=3D"gmail_extra"><br><div class=3D"gmail_quot=
e">On Nov 2, 2017 7:37 PM, "Gregory Maxwell" <<a href=3D"mailt=
o:greg@xiph.org">greg@xiph.org</a>> wrote:<br type=3D"attribution"><bloc=
kquote class=3D"quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc soli=
d;padding-left:1ex"><div class=3D"quoted-text">On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 11:31=
PM, Scott Roberts via bitcoin-dev<br>
<<a href=3D"mailto:bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org">bitcoin-dev@li=
sts.<wbr>linuxfoundation.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> Bitcoin cash will hard fork on Nov 13 to implement a new difficulty<br=
>
> algorithm.=C2=A0 Bitcoin itself might need to hard fork to employ a si=
milar<br>
> algorithm. It's about as good as they come because it followed the=
<br>
<br>
</div>This is the bitcoin development mailing list, not the "give free=
<br>
review to the obviously defective proposals of adversarial competing<br>
systems" mailing list. Your posting is off-topic.<br>
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