Re: Bitcoin Constitution - Looking for feedback

One of the best proposal I have seen in recent times to end the consensus controversy. Have you tried to post it in the bitcoin-dev mailing list?

bitcoin-dev mailing list owner asked me to post it in bitcoin-discuss mailing list first. So, it is there - http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-discuss/2016-February/000080.html.

Quote from: piotr_n on February 23, 2016, 09:20:19 PM

So how exactly is this constitution suppose to be enforced?
Why would anyone obey it?

Neither it needs to be enforced, nor anyone needs to obey it. It'll do good as an unofficially defined process for consensus resolution. And once, a hard fork proposal passes through the process stated in this constitution, it'll have the majority of hash power with majority of coins backing it. The majority of hash power with the backing of the majority coins is what makes the longest chain ticking in bitcoin ecosystem. Everyone else 'obeys' it.

So what is the incentive for anyone to even follow or obey a constitution that, in your words, no one needs to obey and is unenforceable?

Do u understand that u just read the first sentence of a 3 line statement and made an arbitrary comment? He has already explained why the consensus does not require to be enforced. In fact, in bitcoin network, nothing can be enforced. People are part of it because it benefits them and this proposed constitution fits very well to this ideology.

Do you understand what arbitrary means?
If nothing can be enforced, in what universe is a "proposed constitution" practical?