Re: Analysis and list of top big blocks shills (XT #REKT ignorers)

They've voted 89% in favour of removing Theymos alert key access.

Satoshi's greatest (external) triumph.

I went to town on the Blockstream conflict of interest because of the implications in principle of having a for-profit have any kind of influence on the code. But only because I thought any kind of external influence was bad. Now I realize that not only will there always be external influence, that it's necessary to maintain the code. I have to admit, appeals to change the protocol based on popularity sort of concern me. Shouldn't consensus be based on technical merit?

Quote from: valiz on January 21, 2016, 09:10:19 AM

Bitcoin is not 'governed' by anyone.

That's what I used to think. Cry

How do you think the Blockstream people can coerce me to run their software on my node?

Perhaps you believe that all full nodes are maintained by Blockstream stakeholders?

No. I don't think those things. Was that implied by my post? If it was I should have been more careful.

Ok, perhaps I poorly understood what you meant. But let's say Blockstream has an evil for profit influence on the Bitcoin Core software. In this case, if they introduce something bad that people don't agree with, then there is nothing to coerce the node maintainers to use the bad Bitcoin Core.

In case Blockstream implements something evil, we can always fork the software and circumvent that evilness.

Anyway, I don't think that company has such a large influence on Bitcoin Core development. But one can't know for sure.