The claimants in this case were part of a large group of miners who had instructed the defendant solicitors to initiate claims against British Coal. (newlawjournal.co.uk)
And since not all users, but only miners, decide which transactions are included in blocks, soft forks can be carried out by a mere majority of miners by hash power. (bitcoinmagazine.com)
The decreasing number of miners in the bitcoin ecosystem is a plausible explanation for the decrease in the bitcoin mining difficulty. (coinfox.info)