Quote from: Carlton Banks on October 13, 2016, 07:04:41 PM

Quote from: DooMAD on October 13, 2016, 06:51:19 PM

Quote from: RealBitcoin on October 13, 2016, 02:14:04 PM

There is no corporate monopoly over bitcoin, and competition is good, I am not sure where you get that from, I have never said such contradictory things.

If you're in favour of competition and a free and open market, then how do you square that with the rampant protectionism going on in the community right now? Protectionism can be defined as actions or policies that restrict or restrain external competition. Core is seen as the "native" code, which some people feel has to be protected or shielded from any outside, external developers, working on their own implementations. If competition is good, you should welcome more alternative clients.

But Bitcoin development is not a free and open market, it is an individual participant in a free and open market.

That means that the project is not some kind of public institution. You have a right to choose which coin, but not to tell the coin devs what to do with their coin. Design your own coin.

If you elect to take part in a closed source project, then you are freely agreeing that the dev team are ultimately in control and have the final say on every aspect of the code. Like it or not, that simply isn't the case here. Bitcoin is open source. It's undeniably a free and open market because alternative clients are right now competing for both hashrate and node count, anyone can modify the code at will, without permission, and users are free to decide on what code they choose to run. It's the absolute epitome of freedom and liberalism.

If you can't handle that, maybe Bitcoin is not what you thought it was. I, for one, love it.

It's gotta be a pretty sad day when one of the people the OP perceives as a filthy, commie lefty has a greater appreciation for a free and open market than the OP does. Grin

OP thinks the market can be co-opted and needs protectionism to save it. I trust the market to regulate itself.