Re: The Barry Silbert segwit agreement with >80% miner agreement.

Quote from: ComputerGenie on May 22, 2017, 02:45:52 PM

Quote from: mindrust on May 22, 2017, 02:39:56 PM

So it is O.K. for big mining companies to make deals without asking the community's opinion behind the closed doors but it is not O.K. to change the PoW algo prevent these kind of situations.

I didn't sign up for a centralized piece of shit coin and a toy for big companies.

We must drain the swamp.

You're right, it's bad for companies (like Bitcoin Core) to make deals/decisions without asking the community's opinion behind the closed doors. Cheesy

It's almost entertaining to watch you ignore the fact that everything you say applies to the group you seem to be a fanboy of. Undecided

You obviously don't follow the dev-list and the developer meetings on IRC. Everything Bitcoin Core does (it is not a company, btw) is suggested by the wider community, discussed among the wider community, thoroughly tested, peer-reviewed, tested and eventually sometimes deployed under more or less full consensus. Then, if it is a soft fork, 95% of the miner hashrate have to agree as well. You will never see this kind of childish closed door deals happen with Bitcoin Core.

If Bitcoin Core would try a coup like this one, most of the developers would leave the project, and it would end up in the trash like "Bitcoin XT/Unlimited/Crashic/whatever". You may say it already happened, when Gavin stopped beeing a developer, and started behaving as a some kind of ruler who wanted to make decisions on his own without any kind of peer-review or discussion.