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Re:A 96 Bitcoin ransom payment ends up on Bitfinex by lawn on Thursday January 30, 2020 @02:48PM (#22194743)
With Bitcoin's history of extreme hardfork aversion, it's not that simple. In theory you're right, but in practice it's much harder.
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Re:A 96 Bitcoin ransom payment ends up on Bitfinex by andirk on Thursday January 30, 2020 @11:21PM (#22199017)
You should be able to add an optional functionality w/o a hardfork yes?
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Re:A 96 Bitcoin ransom payment ends up on Bitfinex by lawn on Friday January 31, 2020 @01:50AM (#22199656)
You can technically introduce anything as a softfork yes. The only difference is how difficult it is to implement, which I think would go beyond "just copy it".
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