Quote from: vuduchyld on July 02, 2016, 05:53:07 PM

Wow! Welcome!

I think I understand your point about the precedent. You're right...there probably isn't any MORE reason now than there was before for any government or corporation to fork/roll back/control the blockchain. And I'm sure that Apple with $160 billion in cash or Microsoft with $85 billion in cash have recognized that they COULD easily do whatever they want to do.

I still have some concern about how the Foundation has taken the lead on it, though. What happens if VB gets busted with a yacht full of hookers and cocaine? Would the DEA be able to put enough pressure on him PERSONALLY to get him to get the miners to collude? Maybe that wouldn't have nefarious purposes...but what if his parents/girlfriend/boyfriend/CHILD got kidnapped? Would kidnappers pressure him to exercise his leadership in a truly nefarious way? You could ask for $1 million to return a person. Or you could make 20x that by shorting and forcing one man to exercise a power he has that he probably shouldn't have.

Satoshi NEVER had that individual cult-of-personality or power. Maybe that's why he/she has been anonymous the whole time.

Rather welcome back. I had an account here years ago, but after the hack of forum and passwords reset I never used this old one again.

About possible pressure on VB and possible scenarios. Ultimately it's in hands of the community. Of course one can manipulate it (and it constantly happens in Ethereum, Bitcoin and other cryptocoin communities), sell nicely dressed lies, but this process isn't as easy as it looks. One cannot bribe or blackmail the whole community. And the bigger it gets the more resistant it becomes in terms of said manipulation. It can be seen with Bitcoin - best example IMO.
Besides, in the future some excuses that work with present problem with theDAO will not work.

Thus, I don't think that the risk of malicious overuse of forking suddenly became bigger. It just inherently exists. Always.

As to Satoshi - there is a cult of the "word" of Satoshi among some Bitcoiners. For better explanation - Bitcoin is like Judaism, cult of the scripture given by unspoken god via prophets; Ethereum is like Christianity - the god is in human form and his words are praised

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