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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Bitcoin XT - Officially #REKT (also goes for BIP101 fraud)
by
VeritasSapere
on 29/08/2015, 00:00:53 UTC
"There is no issue with Bitcoin governance hence there should be no discussions or debate about it."
I'm using the terms because these XT clowns have opened the political pandora box like some idiots who don't know any better.[/b]
who are these people and why should we trust them? For someone who likes talking about politics so much it seems to me you are sorely lost as to how Bitcoin works in that sense.
If there is no discussion or debate about Bitcoin governance how would we even know if there was an issue with it in the first place? In political terms you have contradicted your self again.

I think that you are correct about opening the political pandoras box, however once the pandoras box has been opened it can never be closed again.

Bitcoin is a trust less protocol, one of the great innovations behind Bitcoin is that we can achieve trust without centralized authority. However when people start thinking in terms of who they should trust for the development of the Bitcoin protocol then we are already in trouble, since this comes from a fundamental misunderstanding of how Bitcoin governance should work. Similarly to how a democracy functions within a nation state, it can be undermined if the majority of the population becomes apathetic and ignorant of these political realities.