What?ABC just ruined their reputation adding checkpoints to prevent his and Calvin's reorgs... He's done us all a service by shining a spotlight on ABC camp and their lack of integrity
No they ruined reputation by destroying the security model and economic incentives in bitcoin. They could have prevented an attack with hash power - instead they corrupted it all.
more secure? REALLY???? With only 10% of nodes accepting the CPs every 10th block it is an almost certainty to cause a permanent chain split if publishing 10 empty shadow mined blocks
You publish the 10 blocks right at checkpoint time and 50% of network go with the 9 original blocks and it gets checkpointed by some ABC nodes and the other 50% checkpoint the reorg