If >5% of blocks are produced by miners or pools who not running Core or another implementation which is signalling support for the soft fork, how will the soft forks be activated?
Soft Fork activation with <95% miner support #7641
issue chriswheeler opened this issue on March 4, 2016-
chriswheeler commented at 2:27 PM on March 4, 2016: contributor
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laanwj commented at 8:04 PM on March 6, 2016: member
If the threshold is not reached, for no matter which reason, the soft fork won't activate.
- laanwj closed this on Mar 6, 2016
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chriswheeler commented at 8:39 PM on March 8, 2016: contributor
OK but that doesn't really solve the issue. If there is not miner support at 95%, will the threshold be reduced, or is 95% set in stone?
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laanwj commented at 8:11 AM on March 11, 2016: member
I don't expect the threshold to be reduced. Enforcing the rules of a new block version without almost-complete miner support would be irresponsible (the non-upgraded miners will ignore the new rules and thus keep mining on now-invalid blocks, confusing SPV clients).
Take a look at BIP9 (versionbits): it allows for soft-forks to fail if they don't achieve enough support within their scheduled time allocation.
- MarcoFalke locked this on Sep 8, 2021
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