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Re: Jacob Appelbaum: "Bitcoin Prediction: Major bugs in the near future ..."
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jgarzik
on 12/06/2011, 07:51:37 UTC
- 'Voting' should then also be possible by running a completely different client, implemented by other developers.

This is already possible.

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- So far, the lack of a sound description of a specification (http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=12577.msg190384#msg190384) hinders implementation of different clients.

Sounds like a great project.  Are you volunteering?

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- The default client should not contain limits that prevent running other versions / clients. If the default client won't distribute transactions with a fee less than 0.01, it's going to be very hard to run a client that allows a minimum fee of 0.001.

Shockingly...  people are already doing that which you describe as "very hard" simply by upgrading.

Re-read the part of my post about people voting with their downloads.
Then re-read the other post about transaction fees already changing.
Then read the thread on transaction fees changing to 0.0005.
And maybe study how mining works, too.

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Same with the version number misery...

No idea what you're talking about here.