Re: NXT :: descendant of Bitcoin - Updated Information

Quote from: kunibopl on January 26, 2014, 04:44:51 PM

Quote from: ChuckOne on January 26, 2014, 04:41:53 PM

One big issue with that distributed and anonymous voting system is:

Who is gonna enforce the outcome? Actually, nobody.

A great politician once said: Never make rule you cannot enforce.

So, this voting system only for gathering opinions.

UNLESS

The Nxt client is distributed via Nxt itself. Then, changes (aka pull requests on https://github.com/) to the client can be voted on by the community. That would be real democracy.

I only fear that's gonna be very technical for most users.

the only reasonable VS would be if the Nxt network itself can enforce the outcome of a voting.
this would be like coding an AI -> it's impossible.

Coding an AI is not impossible.

But enforcing virtual issues in the real world can only be done by humans or robots controlled by Nxt.
Both alternatives are highly unlikely either because they aren't reliable (the humans) and might even be very dangerous (the robots).

The only way for the Nxt network to enforce something at all, it to control the distribution of the correct Nxt client.