You have posted a lot that you don't want gavin's update but you haven't actually posted why.
All you have done is repeatedly assured us that if the update goes in then MP will try to fork the blockchain.
I know why MP doesn't want the change, he's made it perfectly clear. I don't agree with him, but it's his opinion so I respect that. We just want different things out of bitcoin.
Why don't you actually want the change? Hint: "Because it will fork the blockchain" isn't an answer, its at best FUD at worst a threat.
you loose me the moment you fix a system that isn't broken without consensus on it ahead of actual demand
the 'innovation' is causing chaos and being wasteful with HD recources of users
it's no innovation at all
i don't see me downloading 2.8GB every day just to sync up - and i know almost nobody will do that, that's why gavincoin will be the loosing fork (that was the basic point of the thread)
Let them do it, sit back relax and watch it go down the slippery slope over the decade.
Perhaps long after reversible transactions, inflation/deflation according to economic factors and a more sane transaction storage practice are in it finally becomes a usable payment system one can call a currency. Nobody except the victims of the pump & dump will shed a tear about the fixed coin supply if there is real economic growth.
interesting approach
What you describe there is certainly not the bitcoin people sign up for today though.
But i'll probably personally really take the approach of sitting back and relaxing. Speculating on alts just became a lot more rational.
I'm pretty confident the original Bitcoin chain will live on for decades though.
Here i the thing: Nobody required them to to sign up for anything, not satoshi, gavin, the bitcoin foundation or mark karpeles.
And it does matter what people decide to be Bitcoin in the future, innovations don't happen inevitably. It happens only if a majority of the people realize they need it and if the people who have the necessary skills to innovate decide to work together.
correct