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Re: ToominCoin aka "Bitcoin_Classic" #R3KT
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on 23/02/2016, 19:29:34 UTC
Quote from: VeritasSapere on February 23, 2016, 07:11:17 PM
Quote from: hdbuck on February 23, 2016, 07:01:04 PM
Quote from: VeritasSapere on February 23, 2016, 06:56:54 PM
Quote from: hdbuck on February 23, 2016, 06:48:27 PM
Yea yea here we go again with the political philosophy..

In the end you expressed yourselves switching to Classic xt or whatever... such freedom.

We all agree not to agree, sounds lika consensus to me. Grin
If that is your conception of consensus then I can agree with that. What consensus means as a governance model in the literal sense of the word is that essentially any changes become impossible. If changes require true consensus then change becomes completely impossible since there will always be a few people that disagree, regardless. Not how I perceive the governance of Bitcoin but if that is how you perceive it then I can at least respect the consistence of your believes.
Dont worry, shifting consensus will likely be reached if bitcoin's very existence would directly be threaten, as in security wise for example.

But coinbase or other mainstream matters are not vital for bitcoin. Sorry (for their loss).
You are right, that is the one exception, if lets say the cryptography was broken for instance, to switch the cryptography if that happened would be the type of change that could gain consensus. Any other changes though would be impossible to implement with true consensus. Segwit is a good example of this, it only takes a few people to disagree for "true" consensus to be lost.

I personally do think that transaction cost and reliability on the first layer are critical for Bitcoin to remain the dominant cryptocurrency, this can only be preserved with a blocksize increase. I suppose this is the type of "mainstream" change that you do not think is vital I presume.

I appreciate your more reflexive attitude, but what we all think is of no importance consensus wise as I've demonstrated.

If anything, it will only harden the state of Bitcoin's status quo.

So we do what we do as politicized simpletons and turn in circles, argue and throw shit at each other whilst meanwhile Bitcoin does its thing.

 


And that's the beauty of it. That is what brings bitcoin its value. That is the apolitical, antifragile and disruptive monetary system we all bought into.

That is what is making the banksters and all powers that wannabe mad about. Smiley