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In between are many possible outcomes, but\n-none of them are good.\n-\n-The danger of a contentious hard fork is potentially so significant\n-that Bitcoin.org has decided to adopt a new policy:\n-\n-> Bitcoin.org will not promote software or services that will leave the\n-> previous consensus because of an intentional and contentious hard fork attempt.\n-\n This policy applies to full node software, such as Bitcoin Core,\n-software forks of Bitcoin Core, and alternative full node\n-implementations.\n+software forks of Bitcoin Core, and alternative full node implementations.\n \n It also applies to wallets and services that have the ability to detect\n-the contentious hard fork, and which release code or make announcements\n-indicating that they will cease operating on the side of the previous\n-consensus.\n-It does not apply to software that cannot detect the contentious hard\n-fork and which continues doing whatever it would've done anyway.\n+hard forks, and which release code or make announcements indicating that\n+they will cease operating on the side of the majority consensus.\n+\n+>>Wallet authors and service providers who would like to discuss their opinions\n+>>or contributions relating to hard forks should open an issue or submit\n+>>a pull request specific to their requested change.","path":"_posts/2015-06-16-hard-fork-policy.md","position":32,"original_position":32,"commit_id":"f18b59f50e31de0d536d1b8366a33e3bd99ce401","original_commit_id":"f18b59f50e31de0d536d1b8366a33e3bd99ce401","user":{"login":"coderwill","id":1130872,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1130872?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/coderwill","html_url":"https://github.com/coderwill","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/coderwill/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/coderwill/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/coderwill/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/coderwill/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/coderwill/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/coderwill/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/coderwill/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/coderwill/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/coderwill/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"body":"@harding That's correct, and if the majority concensus is to NACK that, it won't be removed.","created_at":"2015-06-16T14:26:31Z","updated_at":"2015-06-16T14:26:31Z","html_url":"https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.org/pull/899#discussion_r32525873","pull_request_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/bitcoin/bitcoin.org/pulls/899","_links":{"self":{"href":"https://api.github.com/repos/bitcoin/bitcoin.org/pulls/comments/32525873"},"html":{"href":"https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.org/pull/899#discussion_r32525873"},"pull_request":{"href":"https://api.github.com/repos/bitcoin/bitcoin.org/pulls/899"}}},"pull_request":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/bitcoin/bitcoin.org/pulls/899","id":37771016,"html_url":"https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.org/pull/899","diff_url":"https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.org/pull/899.diff","patch_url":"https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.org/pull/899.patch","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/bitcoin/bitcoin.org/issues/899","number":899,"state":"open","locked":false,"title":"Revise Hard Fork Policy","user":{"login":"coderwill","id":1130872,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1130872?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/coderwill","html_url":"https://github.com/coderwill","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/coderwill/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/coderwill/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/coderwill/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/coderwill/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/coderwill/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/coderwill/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/coderwill/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/coderwill/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/coderwill/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"body":"* Remove references to \"Contentious\" - arguably everything on Earth could be considered contentious.\r\n* Remove speculative conjecture about what happens with Hard Forks. There's never been one to the degree that's being alluded to in the post - this is fear-mongering at that the very least and is potentially going to destroy confidence in new users who are considering entering the space in a multitude of contexts.\r\n* Update policy to direct people to creating Issues or Pull Requests. It goes without saying that Bitcoin.org isn't going to support something that is bad for Bitcoin. We don't need a notice about it.\r\n\r\nIt's pretty clear that no matter what, a group of people want to have some sort of policy. 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