On consensus and forksThe long, hot summer of 2015 has revealed something surprising about the Bitcoin community: many people have strange and technically unsupportable ideas about how the block chain algorithm actually works.
This has culminated in Michael Marquardt, who admins bitcoin.org and various discussion forums, banning all discussion of Bitcoin XT and threatening to delete services that use it from the official Bitcoin website. His rationale is that Bitcoin XT is an alt coin because it is intended to trigger a hard fork. On the other hand, “soft forks” are totally OK.
This position doesn’t make any technical sense, and in this article I will explain why not.
https://medium.com/@octskyward/on-consensus-and-forks-c6a050c792e7
