But CSW doesn't understand how mining works. The chains did split because the rulesets were mutually incompatible (that this would happen was obvious).
This was obvious I agree. Anyone who did not understand what was going to happen as a result of this "obvious result" lacks the necessary economic competence to govern the bitcoin project. (That should include all the BCH developers, it applies to everyone alive today) Those who thought it was obvious and knew how bitcoin works made a lot of money.
The statement by CSW
"You split we bankrupt you" also leads me to believe he understood it was obvious. He said that before the split. At the time I understood it to mean he had a week position and needed to resort to making the threat.
CSW could have said, "We understand how the code works, and we can not prevent a split, but we can use all the available tools at our disposal to discourage you from splitting."
What CSW said was:
I believe by saying
"You Split we bankrupt you" the message had a much greater audience in contrast to crafting a politically correct statement like.
"We understand how the code works we don't have to resources to prevent you from changing it, or kicking us out of the network if we don't accept your authority.
Please cooperate and don't make the change. We know we can not prevent a split, but in the event, you decide to fork us off the network by making changes we cannot accept, we will use all the available tools at our disposal to discourage you from splitting.
Please don't split the network it's not worth it."
The latter seems less newsworthy. and the result would have probably been the same.
The unfortunate consequence was Roger. His reaction implies he understood nChain to be hostile and in a week position and saw no reason to cooperate, and he saw an opportunity to fork them off.
(e.g., he wants the two chains to "re-merge" somehow).
LOL, yes he's an experienced guy. Your first assessment of Calvin was probably more accurate he understands bitcoin very well.
He's presenting his legal position. It has nothing to do with anything but his expectations. I have similar expectations. That is just one way bitcoin.com and ABC can compensate him for his losses as a result of splitting the network.
FYI before I reinvest in BCH, I require a public apology from ABC and reddit and an effort on behalf of the ABC developers to rectify the loss in adoption caused by splitting and forking in the new rules.
Yes, I'm also a little stupid, that's not a realistic demand, but if the BCH network wants my money they need to give me confidence they won't make the same mistakes again. The reality is ABC didn't make a mistake forking off SV and changing the rules, and they know better than me, so they don't need me it's win-win. I still hold equal amounts of BCH to BSV so I'm still invested in each succeeding.
It does concern me those who've sold their BSV for BCH. I don't know how they can be objective if they are biased towards BCH over BSV.
The idea that making code changes to your github repository is somehow unlawful is preposterous.
I think this is the wrong way think about it. Bitcoin is not an OSS Project, It's money for the world. nChain and the ABC forking is a mutual declaration. CSW sent a message that was very clear he did not want to split. ABC sent a message that was very clear they were going to split SV if they did not follow ABC's lead.
ABC ensured the Bitcoin code was designed to split SV off. nChain had no other option but to make threats.
Dismissing those threats as preposterous is an option, but if you understood the "code" and how forks work you'd know that's was one probable outcome.
My hypothesis is that CSW and team wanted the SV transactions to be replayable on BCH, because they believed there would not be a split.
They did not want a split. I'm sure they couldn't prevent the split, preventing the split would have required cooperation on the ABC side or majority of all SHA256 hashrate. The SV side by relaying all transactions was signalling no split was an option. ABC didn't do it alone, they needed many players cooperating to split SV off the network and force the new and unnecessary rules through.
