“If we considered that there had been this kind of, like, contentious or adversarial situation, then BIP 9 would not have been used,” said Lombrozo. And now it’s being used against businesses to extort stuff from them.”īIP 9 Does Not Work With Uncooperative MinersĪccording to Lombrozo, BIP 9 would not have been used for Segregated Witness (SegWit) if the contributors to Bitcoin Core knew then what they know now.
“And once this mechanism was created, it was abused and turned against the developers to try to extort stuff. “It was a mechanism that was created way later,” said Lombrozo. The Ciphrex CEO added that there was nothing like miner signaling in the original version of Bitcoin, and Satoshi Nakamoto never used miner signaling for the soft forks that he deployed on the network. “It was introduced for the courtesy of miners to be able to reduce their orphan rates and reduce the probability that they’re going to end up mining blocks that are actually invalid - that was the real motivation behind it,” said Lombrozo.Īccording to Lombrozo, the goal is still to get nodes upgraded and enforce the rules of the soft fork BIP 9 was simply a technique to coordinate with miners.
Lombrozo also noted that, in the past, soft forks have been deployed on Bitcoin without any special treatment for miners, and BIP 9 was supposed to solve some of the issues miners could face during the deployment of a soft fork. “It was not designed to be a political system for voting on controversial issues ever - that was never the intention.” “It was an arbitrary system created by developers in order to coordinate smooth soft-fork transitions,” said Lombrozo.
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