Quote from: PowerGlove on Today at 07:35:37 PM

Quote from: HeRetiK on Today at 02:29:21 PM

Compared to most alts Bitcoin's development already is moving at a glacial pace Wink

And for good reason! But I fear increasing the political overhead would pretty much halt development and possibly even increase developer attrition.

@HeRetiK: I agree with you, and I'm beating a dead horse at this point, but I have a different definition of "glacial" and would much prefer it if the design was basically set in stone, never to be tweaked again. I don't have the same appetite for improvements that most people seem to.

Of course, that's blithely ignoring real issues like quantum cryptography, but I suspect that even once Bitcoin is "post-quantum" there will still be many more upgrades than are strictly necessary, with each one being an opportunity to get something wrong, with possibly disastrous consequences.

Quote from: NotATether on Today at 03:09:24 PM

I intentionally worded it like that, because I already addressed why its not encouraged in my first reply (i.e. the protocol becomes the least common demoninator, which is exactly what the protocol architects do not want).

@NotATether: Yup, can't argue with that.

Agreed.

Considering that BTC is a Financial System, it is admirable that so far the Core dev team have taken what in financial circles is called a Fiduciary approach to making sure the BTC network works securely as intended including an immutable and readable record of all TX's back to the Genesis Block and nothing that is added breaks its intended purpose.

I'm more than happy to let the altcoin folks experiment with interesting ideas for using blockchains and I'm certain that the Core developers watch what they do as well to see if what the alt folks come up with could *possibly* fit in well with "The BTC Manifesto" so to speak.