So, what changed?
The landscape for bitcoin mining will be completely different at the end of 2013 than the beginning.
Yes, change happens. It is inevitable, like death and taxes.
Rocks do it.
Opinions do it.
Gavin Andresen did it.
Even Lords of La Serenissima do it.
Every one of us will change, many times over, thoroughly, completely, and again, because bitcoin was invented:
23:48:53 mircea_popescu: reminds me of a much older but quite central asciilifeform point : "These fools have been handed a technology so clever, so disruptive and revolutionary, that the rulers of the world would have to fully unmask themselves as ruthless tyrants in order to suppress it, ? or give up their thrones on their own free will ? if it were used correctly, that is."
And
we propose to change
it?
Are we so arrogant that we can say we begin to know bitcoin's correct uses? Maybe they are just the microtransactions, drugs and
poker that this fork would lead to?
I doubt it, because that sounds very much like the status quo, but with crypto, yo.