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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Bitcoin XT - Officially #REKT (also goes for BIP101 fraud)
by
johnyj
on 18/12/2015, 01:37:55 UTC
Who could have thought the governance of an open-source protocol would be so political...
Because it's money, people will lose their mind and become animals when money is involved  Cheesy
People are political animals. Money is power, and Bitcoin changes the fundamental nature of money.

Quote from: Aristotle
Man is by nature a political animal.

The centralization of the knowledge is the problem here, if everyone could easily understand what is going on then there will be no problem, so it is extremely important to keep the solution easy to understand for majority of users, e.g. decentralize the knowledge. And from this point of view, 2MB block is the most viable solution that can be understood by majority of users