> Scoresby's critique assumes that BIP-110 could fail to activate, but it can't. There's no timeout or "failed" state. Mandatory signaling forces lock-in at max_activation_height, regardless of organic support. The chain-split scenarios described rely on minority hashrate activation, but the 55% threshold prevents this.

Uh… Your own article has table columns that are labeled “BIP 110 doesn’t activate”: 


![](https://m.stacker.news/130836)



And you see, that’s where you lose me: when RDTS activates, all nodes running RDTS software will start to enforce it. If that covers only a minority of the hashrate, where does the additional hashrate suddenly come from to suddenly make the hashrate of the RDTS chaintip jump to 55%?

If e.g., 10% of the hashrate runs RDTS and participates in the mandatory signaling, the first block not signaling spawns a separate chaintip that with 90% of the hashrate builds block 9× as fast and just leaves the RDTS nodes behind.

I agree with you that it will certainly activate. 

I'm wondering why you don't include the scenario where it activates with a minority of hash rate in your matrix.

How does a 55% threshold prevent a minority hashrate activation?

Scoresby's critique assumes that BIP-110 could fail to activate, but it can't. There's no timeout or "failed" state. Mandatory signaling forces lock-in at max_activation_height, regardless of organic support. The chain-split scenarios described rely on minority hashrate activation, but the 55% threshold prevents this.

melvincarvalho

I would suggest that you first address the points 

 raised in the OP, but beyond that for starters:

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BIP-110: Game Theory & Code Audit - @melvincarvalho

Scoresby

I would suggest that you first address the points @Scoresby raised in the OP, but beyond that for starters:

- You are wrong about the fork activating immediately upon reaching the threshold
- It makes no sense to claim that miners should signal late. If they support the proposal signaling early would help build momentum and be less risky.
- You misrepresent the potential downsides of being on the wrong side of the soft fork attempt