It's easy getting people to support glittering generalities and project their desires onto nebulous, feel-good project pitches.

Actual software engineering is much harder, especially when done by a committee of competing companies and ideological frenemies.

Did you see what happened when Gavinista idealism met reality, as they tried to design Unlimited?

It was an epic fail.  Even Frap.doc's tiny group at bitco.in couldn't find a Schelling point and decide on exactly WTF they were doing.

The wheels came off as the dev lost patience with the endless dithering over whether or not Unlimited would really be literally unlimited.

Recursive nested loops of bikeshedding slowed progress to a halt, then reversed it.

Most hilariously of all, Frap.doc reverted to his ugly attack dog persona and the mod deleted (sensor shipped) his shit posts.


With more cooks in the kitchen, the same fate awaits _Classic as its proponents, while temporarily united with their anti-Core Do Something Now feelings, will be unable to agree on

-RBF (full or FSS or neither?)

-CLTV? (enables Evil Sidechains and Scary Lightning and tainted by The Todd)

-SegWit (if Blockstream is for it, should _Classic be against it?)

-timing (2MB Right Fucking Now or at the halving or )

-trigger (OrganOfCorti showed 75% is the worst possible threshold...or did he???)

-algorithm (after 2MB, when/how is the move to 4MB?  Sudden or smooth?  And after that?  Repeat all of the above?)


As Theymos said "Bitcoin Classic...is poised to be the greatest cryptocurrency since Bitcoin XT."

Welcome to the Bikeshed from Hell, bitch!