Re: f2pool not supporting roundtable was Re: 「魚池」BTC:270 Phash/s - LTC:500 Ghash/s - New Server in U
but devs have no power at all, if a group of devs don't produce the software that users and miners want to use, some other group of devs will...
That's only true if you have lots of alternative implementations, and when there are lots of alternative implementations, a fork will happen sooner or later when two different implementations differ too much in design philosophy. But they can't fork since that will destroy the promise of limited coin supply, so eventually they have to come to agreement or make compromise, otherwise it will be deadlock or hash war ... war never changes
There needs to be some minimal amount of devs willing to dev different versions of bitcoin that poeple want to see. but i'm thinking we are starting to push past this point.
today, if there is enough demand for an alternative client then there will BE an alternative.
There was some demand for bigger blocks BOOM XT was born.
There was some demand for 2MB blocks BOOM Classic was born
There was some demand for "unlimited block space" BOOM Bitcoin Unlimited was born.
The power / willingness to change bitcoins rules goes from the bottom up; devs at the top, miners in the middle, and users at the bottom.
it's a comforting notion.
There. Now can we relax?
