Quote from: rebroad on March 15, 2013, 12:10:07 PM

What does this even mean? "independent devs doing it". Dependent on what/whom? If you'd had 100 variants of the original Satoshi client all being developed and bug fixed separately and 100 variants of the mining software all being developed and bug fixed separately then we'd have had many more hardforks by now, with no-one really knowing anymore which is the true bitcoin. Do you go by the first version of the client which allowed anyone to give themselves a billion (well, a lot) bitcoins? Or some arbitrary version someone developed based on that? It simply wouldn't work. Bitcoin needs a majority client in order to not hard fork, and therefore in this sense, it can never be decentralised. The developers of this majority client will always have the power and can make decisions to change what bitcoin is whenever they like. For example, let's say they decide to increase the blocksize from 1MB to 10MB. Who's going to stop them? The users downloading bitcoin-qt? I suspect not. Most people just download it and use it without caring what changes are going on. Yes, we were supposed to be able to vote with our feet, but the people who actually do that are usually in the minority and so will lose.

Quote from: MPOE-PR on March 12, 2013, 01:48:47 AM

Considered, yes. One problem is the centralization issue stemming from that approach. The one correct way to handle Bitcoin development is exactly as designed: independent devs doing it. The problem is that instead of doing it they spend their time opining on things that utterly ain't their business.

I don't hold myself responsible for your endless string of presupositions. You think they're true, that's fine, I don't happen to care and it doesn't happen to matter.

Quote from: mobodick on March 15, 2013, 12:39:33 PM

I don't argue a given horse.
I argue that if someone volunteers to do programming for a whole community you should give them some respect. The more because you do not or cannot do this work. This whole community, including you, voluntarily uses the fruits of their labour mostly without compensating them.
Calling them idiots and slaves like you did is just pretty fucking disrespectfull.

I am giving them *some* respect.

Rehashing a defeated (and mostly nonsensical) argument in new terms doesn't lead it more credence.