Re: Bitcoin XT - Officially #REKT (also goes for BIP101 fraud)
I argued that centralization of power can develop within the Core development team
Centralization of power is prevented from developing in the Core development team, exactly because of this ability to hard fork away from the Core development team. It is this mechanism that ensures this aspect of Bitcoins freedom. Which is why intrinsically at least it is not wrong to hard fork away from the Core development team.
on the bolded: oh. lol. glad we cleared that up.
now if only Peter R could understand that, and stop spamming his pie charts in the face of reason. the only context in which this "mechanism" need be mentioned at all is if bitcoin were closed source. that is an impossibility at this point.
no one said it was wrong to hard fork (that is very different from criticizing the merits of a particular hard fork). opponents of XT have been telling you guys to fork off for months now. that doesn't mean that when you keep on arguing for XT based on misinformation and fallacy, that we won't explain reality to you (and those who read these threads).
I did adjust that last statement slightly in order to make it more consistent with what I am saying.
Well some people do argue that it is wrong to hard fork, especially away from the Core development team. Which is why I made these arguments in the first place. If enough people believed that it would be wrong to hard fork away from the core developer team then this would cause centralization of power, not because of technical or systemic reasons but because of social and cultural reasons, you could even say human reasons which are often flawed. It is true that the mechanism to prevent this exists within Bitcoin, however if not enough people properly understand this, then this mechanism can be rendered ineffective and cause problems which in effect could cause a disproportionate amount of influence and power centered around the Core development team. A technocracy if you will.
I am not arguing on misinformation and fallacy, if I am please point it out to me.