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Can someone ELI5 why this is a political/controversial question? As supertestnet said, can't miners already impose extra rules about what goes into their blocks?
The question is probably not meant to be answered (only) on the technical level ("does such a thing as miner-activated softfork (MASF) exist?").
But (additionally), what effects a controversial MASF by a majority of miners would have on the various economic players. How the economic majority would react.
See Bitcoin, A Game-Theoretic Analysis for the kinds of politics involved.
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