Bitcoin is the only cryptocurrency that has proven itself resistant to social and political pressure to make changes from influential members of the network.
BIP 9 is an activation method for soft fork upgrades that requires 95% of the network hashrate to signal support for an improvement before it activates. Although this was mainly intended to be a mechanism to ensure that miners were upgraded before a soft fork was activated , some miners took this as an opportunity to reframe the process as a vote among miners to decide whether or not SegWit should be allowed to activate on the network.
“UASF was basically a way for the nodes to express themselves and say, ‘Miners, we only want these kinds of, and if you don’t give us these kinds of blocks, your blocks will be rejected,’” explained Carvalho.
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