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Re:Monero Declares War on ASIC Manufacturers by tylersmith on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @04:27PM (#16379560)
The developers have a release cycle that includes periodic hard forks. AFAIK there is nothing algorithmic to entice or force a fork like the Ethereum difficulty bomb does.
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Re:Monero Declares War on ASIC Manufacturers by AndrewBissell on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @04:35PM (#16379640)
The scheduled hard fork is announced weeks in advance, and high-profile clients like exchanges are "strongly encouraged" to upgrade. If you run your own XMR full node on an old version past the fork date, you get a bright red warning message telling you to get the new version.
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Re:Monero Declares War on ASIC Manufacturers by matthewbauer on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @05:42PM (#16380208)
That sounds extremely centralized.
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Re:Monero Declares War on ASIC Manufacturers by plasticmachine on Thursday February 15, 2018 @03:49AM (#16382677)
Anyone can be a Monero contributor and can work on the hard fork.
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