Topic: Can tail emmision be a soft fork (Read 881 times)

Pardon me ser, but I never wanted franky1 to chime in this topic/thread, nor have I expressed that I wanted him to. But if I did post something, I was obviously being sarcastic, and/or doing it more with the awareness that he'll merely be looking like a fool again in front of our fellow posters. Plus it's also good to see that other forum members have started to post what they truly believe in regards to frankandbeans. Newbies and our fellow plebs shouldn't need to be deceived by him, and learn the hard way.

If you think about the context, I doubt that I am really comparing them, except putting them in the same sentence regarding members who Wind_FURY specifically named regarding who he wants to chime into this thread.  So it is not any kind of statement that should be analyzed too much in terms of substance.


I don't claim to know all of the situations in which we might suggest that something is a softfork... but whatever you said sounds fair enough to me.


We can agree to disagree regarding my self-proclaimed level of critical-thinking skills and/or what you believe my level might be and the extent to which such potentially existing critical-thinking skills might be better or worse in some subject matters/situations as compared with others, including that I deny making the kind of comparison that you suggested that I was making regarding frankie, achow and gmaxwell or whatever it might have been that you seemed to have thought that I was ridiculously comparing when I placed frankie in the same sentence as achow and gmaxwell..

Also it seems that this topic regarding who Wind_FURY is specifically is (or had been) requesting to come into this thread to participate is becoming more than old, worn out and largely irrelevant.

You're comparing the Bitcoin Core developer with probably the most commits and over all activity in the Bitcoin space, with a whiny, anti-freedom, incompetent liar who hasn't even comprehended lightning yet. That doesn't even pass the laugh test.

"Seems" to you? Something is either a softfork, or it isn't. It's a matter of black or white. If the blockchain is the same to both post-fork and past-fork nodes and backwards-compatibility is retained, then it's softfork.

Do you? Because you made a ridiculous comparison.

You must get some pleasure out of exaggerating what I said into something else... since largely I had been attempting to suggest that franky is one of the three forum members who you specifically requested to participate in this topic.... whether you personally consider him to have technical knowledge or not seems to be a bit of another story.. I did not make any representation in which I was either requesting his participation in this thread, and even though I acknowledged that he sometimes makes some decent points, I did not even make any kind of representation that he actually has any kind of technical knowledge that anyone should actually rely upon, especially since many of us already knows that he makes misrepresentations and frequently gets caught upon seemingly tangential and distracting spins of technical subjects - which seems to be part of the reason that his account likely continues to have restrictions in regards to forum admins considering some of his historical posts and/or behaviors problematic in regards to forum discussions.


There are other members who can fill such shoes.. but yeah.. no problem with the overall idea of technically smarter (or more experienced) members chiming in, but if they don't fucking chime in, then we gotta deal with what we got, which may well just be you, me and vjudeu staring at shadows in a cave and trying to figure out what they mean.. even though vjudeu does seem to know more technical angles than you and I.


Perhaps.. but what if 10s of thousands of full nodes start running the "new implementation" that recognizes 9 digits after the decimal.. maybe even 80%.. then what is going to happen when 80% recognize the 9th digit, and 20% don't?  Are we forced into a split at that time?  I don't claim to know off the top of my head.  Do you know what happens?


We seem to be repeating ourselves. I don't have anything to add or to subtract in regards to what I already said.


Ok.  I already have enough critical thinking skills to recognize and appreciate that many disinformation and misinformation efforts are going to contain elements of truth.  And sure sometimes we can conclude that some members are either completely disingenuous or close to completely disingenuous.  We are not necessarily going to come to the same conclusions regarding members to trust or what kinds of posts to merit.. otherwise each of us would have similar trust lists and/or be sending merits to the same posts.

Laughable that you include frankandbeans to be among the elite developers of Bitcoin Core. Hahaha. That person simply can't be trusted. I believe you would agree.

Plus no, I'm not trying to denigrate your assertions. But like you, I'm also here to learn more about Bitcoin, and you told everyone yourself that you don't actually know much about coding/technical matters about Bitcoin. So do I, I too need to learn more. We need good people like gmaxwell and achow to guide/teach us.


I already addressed that in my superficial way of saying that it seems that you are just throwing out BIG words that don't really seem to apply very much to something like this.. and furthermore, I mentioned that probably node runners could just start to run the software that recognizes further digits down and that seems like a soft fork to me and also seems like ossification doesn't really apply.