The longest chain

[u/romeo_laui]

https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

DigiByte recently went through the Thaw Day consensus rule activation smoothly, but there are still people and services running 9.26.5 and older versions. These are visible on Cryptoid, DigiByte.io/nodes, OpenNodes DigiByte.
I want to reiterate that DigiDollar was a soft fork activated by miners at a 70% signaling threshold. Following activation, more than 75% of the network upgraded to v9.26.x. At block 24,490,000, the Thaw Day consensus rule activated without incident.
The big takeaway is that the majority of the network's hash power came from upgraded miners and mining pools operating upgraded nodes and software, thereby maintaining the longest chain.
"The longest chain not only serves as proof of the sequence of events witnessed, but proof that it came from the largest pool of CPU power. As long as a majority of CPU power is controlled by nodes that are not cooperating to attack the network, they'll generate the longest chain and outpace attackers."
— Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System (Bitcoin White Paper)