(soon or in the foreseeable future)
YES (and it's a GOOD thing)6.2%
YES (and it's a BAD thing)2.1%
NO91.8%
97 votes \ poll ended
you cant fork out inscriptions
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Indeed, anyone can fork Bitcoin, but the Blocksize Wars in the past have taught us an important lesson. The decision of what Bitcoin is rests with the node runners, and it appears that the market has chosen to stay on the route that avoids the need for hard forks. While forks are technically possible, the current consensus favors maintaining the existing Bitcoin protocol making it backwards compatible which means significant changes are not likely.
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What hare fork is being considered?
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Nothing written down, but lots of people feel Taproot (a soft fork change last year) was a mistake because it allowed Ordinals, which are now clogging the mempool.
I say: Not fork-worthy. These kiddies and their jpegs will run out of money and even if it is an attack from the BSV camp, how long can it last? They aren't billionaires, they're broke.
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People who think forking out taproot will prevent the fees we saw this week are dumb
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taproot did not enable ordinals/inscriptions, anyone saying this has no idea what they are talking about
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i'd like to know too
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Yes and it will quickly shift to PoS. They can't do another PoW fork, that will be dead in the water. They will have a hell of a time convincing miners to mine it even if they expect more fees. Can you imagine all the public miners going to their shareholder bases and saying we will be supporting Bitcoin Wizard fork because fees are higher. They will get sued into oblivion. Potentially they could mine both but if it goes down in flames like BCash they will all get fired.
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ho yeah daddy plz do it, I want to dump this shit and get more sats by selling the next crappy fork
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Wait, are you talking about BSV?
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There is a very, very slight chance the big blockers will try again now that Inscripts have people engaged. However, I really do not think it is likely.
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How about a "It doesn't matter either way" option?
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NO I don't see a fork coming, the community is stronger now and we have lightning to scale things up
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"fork your mother if you wanna fork" :)
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I asked the ceo and he said no
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As the Italian man who went to Malta once said: "Everybody wanna the fork!"
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I’ve noticed that the high tx fees have only increased my desire to own Bitcoin. At the same time my willingness to send/transfer to another wallet, spend, or liquidate my holdings has been dramatically decreased (obviously). I don’t see how any of that is a bad thing, although I understand the velocity of money argument in which Bitcoin needs to be used for everyday purposes in order to really scale. That’s what Lightning is for so if anything this situation might drive more people onto value-for-value platforms + increase frequency of visits by existing users of these platforms, where you can earn/stack for free or fund your sats balance more seamlessly (?)
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I think the current problems can be mitigated with measures mainly in the P2P and mempool systems, which are not consensus bound. Honestly, the p2p system is, you know, circa 2009 still. We have better tech now and smarter schedulers and batch algorithms.
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is this due to hurt-boyz whining about transactions they don't like?
let them fork, they don't understand bitcoin at all
bitcoin's security quite literally depends on having full blocks and high fees
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no, i think it's more of a 'big blox' reprise by the monkey-shitters, hoping the miners will support it for fees.
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that would make more sense. why wouldn't they just use bch or bsv though?
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What would this fork change/add if successful?
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"Hi, I'm Craig Nakamoto and we need to fix the freedom to use bitcoin, as is its original vision, by making sure those ordinals aren't too damn expensive. I call it Bitcoin Original Free Use." nah, not again
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No
But I'll take an airdrop if it comes
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That's not going to happen)))) the reason is very logical! the opinion of one is not in authority!) I personally don't care what this guy says. i don't know him and let him do what he wants)))) he will have to create 450 000 000 nodes to have at least 1-2% confirmation of his theory in practice) which in turn means $ 900 000 000 in 30 days) and someone has been preparing for this turn of events since 2010))) So it does not matter what this guy says, he has no idea what is going on!) and the best part is, you have to believe him... that's how it works. 2777
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