Quote from: Mike Christ on December 03, 2013, 08:56:09 PM

Quote from: capoeira on December 03, 2013, 08:46:22 PM

Quote from: Mike Christ on December 03, 2013, 08:26:47 PM

You've also pointed out that they will decide what's best for everyone else; how do enforce this scenario on the, for example, 35% minority who decides they do not what this scenario to come to fruition?

nothing they can do since they are minority.

actualy if BTC is realy democratic (i actualy don't understand all tecnical aspects) than a "revolution" like the one I pointed out above will be unevitable once it will be spread though all classes.
perhaps in 10 years you remember this thread

Why do you believe they can do nothing? Understand that you must change the core function of bitcoin to make this system work; the minority can still use this version of bitcoin, and the majority can still use theirs. You simply don't write in a holy book, "Using the old bitcoin is illegal so don't do it"; this is just fiction, it doesn't mean anything. To actually make a difference, democracy or no, you would still need a way to control the minority, if that's the intention; otherwise there's no point in worrying about a democracy since the majority will do their thing and the minority will do theirs.

I'm not saying a revolution cannot happen; I'm asking you to specifically state what it will take to make the minority do as the majority says.

ok, if majority can't force minority to change the version than BTC is not democratic and my post becomes nonsense.

Quote from: Rassah on December 03, 2013, 09:02:52 PM

Besides the fact that any changes in bitcoin must be approved by near 100% of its users (this includes both miners AND users), otherwise you just end up with a new altcoin and the old bitcoin running side by side, note the text in my signature, which was my thought, put much more eloquantly into words by our forum user NewLiberty

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"Perhaps no where else in modern society is the threat of Democracy devolving into Ochlocracy given so dangerous an incentive as it is with Bitcoin. If there is any politics in Bitcoin, it would be this lesson: the necessity of mustering the individuals to prevent this Tyranny of the Majority against the rights of all to the freedom of transaction." - NewLiberty

The meaning is that in bitcoin, a 51% mining majority is seen as an attack, unimagitively called "The 51% attack." This is quite literally "democracy, where majority votes, is an attack." This idea may actually influence people's psychology to consider many other majority-rule democracy things as an "attack." Possibly in the same way that peer-to-peer music/movie file downloading has influenced people to believe that breaking copyright isn't actually stealing.

where in the world the majority realy decides? western world is a Plutocracy.

"Tyranny of the Majority against the rights of all to the freedom of transaction."
this doen't make any sense. whenever majority doesn't decide it's a "dictatorship" of a small group.