Re:What Happened at the Satoshi Roundtable
by gohrt on Saturday March 05, 2016 @03:00AM
(#11228829)
The challenge is that the rules are only legitimized by the clients choosing to follow them. You can't launch new rules until at least 50% of clients by weight are following those rules. There is no way for the ruleset to somehow disable or ignore a misbehaving client, you need consensus.
[ Parent
| on HN ]
Re:What Happened at the Satoshi Roundtable
by derefr on Saturday March 05, 2016 @03:13AM
(#11228852)
Right, this would just make the difference explicit: given a good spec for defining the rulesets, a client would be able to just give a drop-down for which ruleset to follow (or allow you to point the client at your own by URL, etc.)