The below is an off-site archive of all tweets posted by @lopp ever

March 24th, 2017

@OptimistLib @rubicon59 @alansilbert If there’s an emergency fork / attack, I’ll contribute to the best of my abilities.

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RT @morcosa: I just published “Why Bitcoin doesn’t need a solution” https://t.co/XrQPlCnmKQ

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@olivierjanss I’m personally unaffected by Litecoin’s activation parameters; aren’t we talking about Bitcoin?

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Google officially no longer trusts Symantec. https://t.co/L8fYVGqAj8

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@olivierjanss OK, that’s a very different issue… deployment parameters are very different from claiming feature itself has issues.

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@olivierjanss You lost me. Are you saying Litecoin only has as many nodes as Bitcoin’s Testnet?

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@olivierjanss Network partitioning is an artifact of how few nodes are on testnet: mesh is thin. Once again, a very different network.

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@jedigras A wide variety of reasons including frustration, impatience, concentration of power, and capitalization.

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@olivierjanss If you spent time on testnet, you’d know that it has /always/ experienced crazy reorgs. It’s a very different network.

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@alansilbert Yeah, @GeminiDotCom has been publicly tweeting support replies for a while despite my recommendations otherwise…

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Great post by @brucefenton on civility during these contentious times. https://t.co/LaCVlZIDq9 https://t.co/1k17UW6gl5

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@btcguy_ Invalid segwit spends is possible same as invalid p2sh spends are possible. Good incentive for miners to not create invalid blocks.

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@btcguy_ Network split highly unlikely because mainnet has orders of magnitude more nodes - better connected network mesh.

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@btcguy_ It could have been a network partition or it could have been someone creating blocks w/invalid segwit spends. My bet is on former.

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@ryanxcharles It’s unfortunate to hear anyone saying that they want to see conflict and strife. 😞

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@rubicon59 @alansilbert I wouldn’t worry about it too much; it’s outside of our control 😌

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@rubicon59 @alansilbert It’s just posturing until it’s an actual attack. Pre-emptively countering posturing is a waste of resources.

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@rubicon59 @alansilbert For major economic players, probably. But that’s not the only option. 🙂

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@rubicon59 @alansilbert Anyone who wants to transact on a BU chain fork is free to do so. I suspect disruption would last < few days.

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@jessedain @theonevortex @alansilbert @ChandlerGuo It’s a real threat, it would be disruptive, it wouldn’t be effective permanently.

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@rubicon59 @alansilbert No, anyone can change the code they run at any time.

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@rubicon59 @alansilbert Machine consensus can always be changed via human consensus. Nothing is set in stone.

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@theonevortex @alansilbert Unless you are the person moving the market or spoke with those who are, trying to extract meaning => speculation

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@rubicon59 @alansilbert By rendering the attackers’ ASICs useless, which could be done in a variety of ways.

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@alansilbert @theonevortex I suspect either side will just claim that they are morally justified in “looking out” for those people.

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@theonevortex @alansilbert Seems to me that those who consider it immoral vs moral are already split.

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In the event of perpetual protocol pause, the “winners” will be those who keep their heads down and innovate w/o asking anyone’s permission.

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@alansilbert Seems simple to me. Morality of an attack is irrelevant. What’s relevant is that such an attack would be parried.

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Brinkmanship behooves nobody in Bitcoin. In fact, it very well may be that Bitcoin is resistant to traditional political strategies.

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