Myriadcoin has released a new client, v0.11.3, that will implement certain changes (BIP65/66, algo swap, and consensus rule) when 750 of the last 1000 blocks have been mined using the latest version. See here for details:
https://www.reddit.com/r/myriadcoin/comments/4rgidn/myriad_01131/My question is, will this be the first consensus driven hardfork in crypto history? Certainly Bitcoin has performed several soft forks this way, and Bitcoin classic attempted/is attempting to hard fork this way, but I'm guessing myriad is going to beat classic to the punch.
Alt coins hard fork all the time: Vertcoin or feathercoin to change algos, digibyte or auroracoin or verge to switch to myriad style multi algo PoW, and many others to tweak consensus rules or make other more drastic changes. But, as far as I know this is always done by dictate from the dev or dev team: a new version is released, hard fork block announced, exchanges are made aware, and everything switches over smoothly (usually).
The closest examples I can think of are when Doge hardforked to auxpow, where there was much discussion, many reddit threads (wow), but ultimately it was just implemented and released by rnicoll and other devs, and much more recently the upcoming ETH hardfork where a vote was held, but I hardly think you can call 3% participation rate a consensus driven change (many would probably argue 75% isn't consensus, but it is clearly better than 3%).
So, is anyone aware of consensus driven hard forks occurring in any coin? Just curious if I'm overlooking or forgetting something, or if this will (possibly) be a crypto first.