f2pool not supporting roundtable was Re: 「魚池」BTC:270 Phash/s - LTC:500 Ghash/s - New Server in U.S. stratum-us.f2pool.com
Announcement: We will withdraw support from February 21s roundtable consensus, unless Adam Back gives us a reasonable explanation why he quietly changed his title from Blockstream President to Individual at the very last moment without anybody noticed. We feel weve been cheated. I dont know how we can trust Blockstream anymore in the future.
Hmm, couldn't all the pools just go with 2MB and tell the devs who think they control everything to stop trying to make themselves feel important?Bitcoin is by design controlled by the consensus of the miners, not by centralised control.
It would seem that there are all sorts of parties trying to control bitcoin and I guess they all simply fail to understand the design.
Doesn't really matter how important devs think they are, if they want to be a relevant part of the blockchain decisions then they need to be miners.
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BlockStream/Sidechains/SegWit all sounds a lot like trying pointlessly to control altcoins and make something like a partial SPV ... to me.
Kano, I'm happy to say, we've found something we can agree on
Blockstream (BS) is trying it's hardest to force an artificial fee market before it's time so that developers will be motivated to work on off-chain solutions and users will be incentivized to use them.
While Lightning sounds cool in theory its not ready yet and BS has successfully captured Core development to steer it towards those things it needs to release LN (RBF, SegWit, CLTV, etc...).
Now they are trying to capture large miners to expedite adoption of RBF of and SegWit by making promises they know they can not keep.
BS has become so entrenched in protecting their position by limiting Bitcoin's capacity that they can not see the forest through the trees.