Quote from: pawel7777 on February 03, 2015, 10:06:46 PM

Disagree. Gavin cannot do it if majority of users are against it. Every (official, registered) exchange will have to announce their decision beforehand (otherwise they could potentially be facing legal actions). Same with cloudmining businesses and pools.

So theoretically speaking, if pools/exchanges etc announce that they'll go with the new fork, then people, who want to stay on old one, could just move elsewhere. Therefore pools/exchanges probably will check for the average joes' opinions before making any decision.

Quote from: LaudaM on February 03, 2015, 09:46:09 PM

(worst case scenario) This brings even more concern, if Theymos does not support the changes and they get forced we will end up in a very bad situation. Everything will split and the fight for survival will start.

Why is Theymos that relevant in this case?

I disagree on this. Although I'm not familiar with legal procedures in this case, so it is better to avoid commenting for me. I never implied that a fork would instantly, it would definitely be announced beforehand.
Like I've said, how can you take into consideration everyones opinion when there are a lot of people deliberately hating Bitcoin and against the fork (their opinion being absolute)?

Well you need to take into consideration the reputation of this place. This is like the central place for Bitcoin related discussions. Everything else is pretty minor (except reddit maybe). If the forum breaks down into 2 along with everyone else, well then, then we would live though the darkest days of Bitcoin (along with the losing fork, whichever it turns out to be).