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Reason 2. Non-mining nodes do nothing to secure the network. They can "invalidate" incoming transactions, but because they are not mining, their invalidation means nothing to mining nodes.

In practice, especially as Bitcoin is young and the community small, it's possible for miners to choose what is "democratically" chosen over what makes sense "economically",

The core concept of UASF was NOT that non-mining nodes "saved" the network, but that enough users "voted" the miners to accept the core version of "consensus."

These methods go against the economic incentives of Bitcoin (miners choose to mine the most profitable chain) and is not a sustainable solution.