Thread by @wizsecurity

Consensus by tweet. 🤡

The BSV chain has been suffering from repeated reorgs from a party with superior hashrate.

Now thanks to this kind of careful intervention, BSV is additionally suffering from a split network as some nodes artificially reject certain blocks, breaking the consensus rules. 🤡

Different BSV block explorers currently disagree on the last 100+ blocks of history, with TAAL-owned WhatsOnChain and Calvin's miners now following the original TAAL-mined chain even though it has significantly less work.

"Satoshi's Vision." 🤡

Not all of Calvin's miners got the memo it seems, and have been mining on the reorged chain which Calvin's other properties reject. 🤡

archive.is/pUpwh

After realizing they asked people to blacklist the wrong block (the reorg tip rather than the first forked block), they deleted and reposted their consensus edict-by-tweet. Maybe this time! 🤡

This is all just poking fun at their simultaneous lack of decentralization *and* organization. It's not like there's any real risk of splitting the BSV ecosystem long term, since it has only one economic actor. 🤡

Update: another reorg over 80 blocks deep, this time splitting off after block 698,736. TAAL appears to have again blacklisted the reorg chain, but there's no BA tweet this time. How are people supposed to maintain consensus without official tweets?! 🤡

These newer reorgs are disappearing faster from explorers (either being blacklisted or re-reorged); I've given up on tracking them. The BSV chain is still split. TAAL has abandoned Nakamoto consensus and confirmations are currently useless. 🤡