110 sats \ 3 replies \ @ek 14 May \ on: A Denial of Service Attack on Bitcoin Consensus bitcoin
Both changing and not changing Bitcoin present equal risk of unknown unknown, it is inherent in the very nature of what that is.
That's an interesting point. I am not sure I agree. Does the risk of "unknown unknowns" not decrease over time? Intuitively, I would think so but maybe I am missing something.
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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b OP 14 May
I would think you're right.
Their point seems to be that # softfork UUs = infinity = # nofork UUs = infinity - N, where N is some finite number of risks that time has reduced.
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @021da48107 14 May
Why would it decrease over time? I could see the amount of unknowns increasing over time just as much as it could go down.
I agree with the idea that you can't not do something because of unknowns. That doesn't mean you have to do it though. You simple take caution because there might be a lot of unknowns. e.g. in the Agile development world if there are a lot of "unknowns" you just increase the story point therefore signaling that the story/task is more difficult and could take longer.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b OP 14 May
Why would it decrease over time?
I gather because more becomes known about the current bitcoin system overtime.
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