Quote from: Peter R on August 10, 2015, 02:52:16 AM

Quote from: smooth on August 10, 2015, 02:44:33 AM

Quote from: Peter R on August 10, 2015, 02:36:41 AM

The debate is really just about ideology at this point, and that's why we're no longer making progress. The technical debate is over. Some people want Bitcoin to be free to grow, while others want to control the growth process to attempt to balance "decentralization" with "block space access."

That's frankly bullshit Peter R and I'm surprised to see that kind of rhetoric from you.

Bitcoin the technology is by its nature a decentralized and peer-to-peer system, but also one that "should" scale. The trade offs between decentralization and scaling are very much part of that technology and therefore part of the "technical debate". The only thing ideological here are people who want to move it from that realm to something else, and give people who are neither technologists nor directly involved with building the technology any input at all. That includes opinions on whether the debate is technical or not.

I should have said "between BIP100, 101, 102, etc., the debate is not technical but ideological at this point."

Do you believe that moving forward with BIP101 (Gavin's proposal) could destroy Bitcoin for technical reasons?

Yes I do believe that it could. I believe that a major or even near-total (much less total) collapse of decentralization is a technical failure, and is a possible (and not outrageously implausible) outcome of BIP 101.