Quote from: Amph on July 12, 2015, 08:22:47 AM

Quote from: MicroGuy on July 11, 2015, 04:09:42 AM

Quote from: alani123 on July 10, 2015, 04:15:10 PM

I've seen many people lately criticising bitcoin's lack of authority as a possible weakness. From what it seems, users have to put (at least some) trust to miners and pools and rely on them for things like generating blocks with updated clients, including transactions etc. Wouldn't such an issue scale up as bitcoin grows? Could it be addressed somehow?

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The thing Satoshi probably would have done, if he hadn't been frightened into the shadows, is integrate a voting mechanism into the client. The bitcoin collective would then steer and shape the currency. I think something like this is in the works now, so Bitcoin should be just fine.

isn't the nodes system already based on that, if i want to vote i run a full node, yeah it could have been better for average joe to just vote, with a simplified mechanism, without opening port, and worrying about possible security issues

but there isn't really a tangible difference

True.. The nodes decide which chain to run and therefore have voting power.. Everybody who runs one can have a vote..