You mean they'll be rejected by the minority of miners who voted no?
Because if so, it sounds like you can buy your way to raised thresholds.
EDIT:
Oh, I see... Can you really call it a main branch if you just added all the capacity that is immediately forked? Or is it really just an independent unrelated project at that point?
Let me lay those semantic issues to rest by noting that my original post was not in any way a serious proposal. I was just thinking through the implications of a few individuals with fiat over the voting.
Yeah, the questions in regard to post-hardfork haven't been definitively answered yet because Bitcoin has never intentionally hardforked before. It has done once in the past due to a software error [1], and it was nearly a disaster but luckily all the right people were online and quickly decided which fork to keep.
Because if so, it sounds like you can buy your way to raised thresholds.
EDIT:
Oh, I see... Can you really call it a main branch if you just added all the capacity that is immediately forked? Or is it really just an independent unrelated project at that point?
Let me lay those semantic issues to rest by noting that my original post was not in any way a serious proposal. I was just thinking through the implications of a few individuals with fiat over the voting.