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Re:Do kwon sent $80M a month to secret wallets? by nightpool on Thursday June 09, 2022 @04:53PM (#31686723)
How would that even work? Nobody can force you to run a piece of code against your will.

EDIT: I guess you could rules-lawyer about the meaning of "majority" but like... you don't even need a majority of users to start a fork! Two people is enough to start a fork. There's nothing preventing me from starting a fork of Bitcoin today and mining/trading it among my friends. It's just that normally people feel compelled to go along with what the majority is doing

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Re:Do kwon sent $80M a month to secret wallets? by bombcar on Thursday June 09, 2022 @04:56PM (#31686756)
See the Etherium rollback/fork and the Bitcoin/Bitcoin Cash fork for examples.

If enough people on the blockchain decide to update their code to do something different, you either fork or move with them.

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Re:Do kwon sent $80M a month to secret wallets? by nightpool on Thursday June 09, 2022 @04:58PM (#31686784)
I think you're confused, I'm asking how what the GP said (a blockchain where a fork couldn't happen) could ever be possible.
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Re:Do kwon sent $80M a month to secret wallets? by bombcar on Thursday June 09, 2022 @05:05PM (#31686868)
Ah, you'd have to have some form of central authority that "signs" the official "code" which would defeat the point of a blockchain anyway.
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Re:Do kwon sent $80M a month to secret wallets? by maxerickson on Thursday June 09, 2022 @05:31PM (#31687166)
That's the point. Code isn't law.
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