Aaron van Wirdum
@AaronvanW
Author of The Genesis Book.
Former Editor-in-Chief Bitcoin Magazine.
(Mostly quit X.)
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Just in case the Bdashers’ wipeout argument does stick around: Bitcoin nodes can always reject the BIP110 chain even in the *extremely* unlikely scenario that it would overtake the Bitcoin chain at some point, by running bitcoin-cli invalidateblock 0000000000000000000169eb6f811ddbd0daf343af7b62180cdb13e7c78dbc16.
(This tells your node that the first block on the BIP110 chain is invalid, which of course means that entire chain is considered invalid.)
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Dusted off that pen to explain what could happen when Bitcoin Knots starts rejecting blocks that don’t signal support for BIP110 this weekend.
