This immediate situation was sparked by Amaury Séchet’s on 6 Aug 2020 that his Bitcoin ABC full node software for Bitcoin Cash would be enabling a new coinbase rule.
This coinbase rule, as things stand at the time of publication, diverts 8% of the coinbase payment — the block reward that miners earn for finding a block plus the transaction fees collected from transactions included in that block — to an address that is undoubtedly under the direct control of Amaury Séchet.
This kind of proposal is commonly known as an infrastructure funding plan, or IFP, in Bitcoin Cash circles.
Further, Amaury has stated he will not engage in a debate about this. This is the way his node software, called Bitcoin ABC, is going, and no one has a right to stop him, nor can they. No one can tell Amaury what to put in his software or remove from his software, he says.
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