Quote from: vertoe on April 16, 2015, 10:10:16 AM

Bitcoin is a consensus protocol specification, a team of developers maintaining a reference implementation,

Is has that now but it didn't when Satoshi was creating it. It was essentially a one-man-show (albeit with increasing levels of participation from others as it evolved).

Quote from: vertoe on April 16, 2015, 10:10:16 AM

Darkcoin has none of this and should take the time to learn why it's important to support decentralization over corporate-like behaviour, why it's important to achieve a network consensus by miners not developers and why it's important to have democratic fallback infrastructure in place in case there are disputes without consensus. darkcoin is competion for paypal, not bitcoin. corporations can fail. cryptocurrencies cant.

I think you need to be more specific for that argument to carry any weight because at a purely philosophical level it doesn't hold much water with me at least.

How would a "democratic fallback infrastructure" have worked in this project's favour other than killing potentially smart ideas that didn't have "developer consensus" ? Human innovation never has consensus - that's why there's a flotilla of options to choose from out there in the alt-coin market.

For "democratic fallback infrastructure" you might as well read "corporate subversion by stealth" or "self interested debasement". There are far too few people involved in the creative aspects of such endeavours to have consensus enforced upon them as a rule as if it were some kind of mining algo. Sure it's better that "the vision" carries everyone along with it, acknowledges all contributions fairly and stays open minded, but not at the expense of losing the vision itself.