What is the difference between a soft fork and malware in y…
What is the difference between a soft fork and malware in your opinion?
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Not sure what a soft fork is but malware is basically a trojan virus without necessarily giving the sender control over your pc. Trojans are client/server software. So it kinda is a trojan
You don’t need to convince a significant portion of the network to install the malware for it to be detrimental? Just guessing, I’m dumb
just remember to make sure your computer always wears a condom.
Soft forks are installed by miners intentionally and work as advertised. If you’re implying soft forks are malware then by that definition twitter censoring your post is malware. We don’t need to stretch definitions for rhetorical oomph to win this one.
A soft fork breaks the rules of the network by lying to the honest nodes. They actually don’t have to be installed by miners. In fact, unless miners pro-actively block the soft fork by hard forking, nodes running the new code will take over governance.
That’s why they’re so insidious. Soft forks put developers in charge of rules and subordinate miners unless miners are bold enough to hard fork away from the soft fork before it activates.
This is literally what happened in the BTC/BCH split.
A Core narrative.
I get it, but again, this is like calling censorship “malware”. Why stretch the definition?
Eventually BSV nodes will also have to make soft forks, like to freeze funds or remove CP or whatever else CSW talks about. Still malware?
Software which subverts the rule-enforcement mechanisms of the network is malware, by definition.
The value of it can be debated, of course,
Soft forks by definition do not break rules, only add new ones. You aren’t winning anyone over by twisting definitions even if it feels clever. Anyway looking forward to you sounding the alarm on “malware” when CSW declares the first freeze or forced spend
I’m not playing word games, and I don’t care to win anyone. However, adding a rule *is* breaking a rule in bitcoin.
I publicly opposed the soft fork which secured Greg’s P2SH-infected BSV, in the spring, so yes, continue looking forward to my consistency.