Quote from: S4VV4S on June 18, 2014, 02:14:55 PM

I (as in me personally) am not worried about a 51% attack right now.

Great. Then there's nothing to fix.

Quote from: S4VV4S on June 18, 2014, 02:14:55 PM

I am worried about what this is doing to BTC (mostly caused by media FUD).

The FUD that has been going around is damaging BTC rep and it's slowing down adoption as people tend to see the bad side of things instead of the benefits.

If the media is the problem, then fix the media.

Quote from: S4VV4S on June 18, 2014, 02:14:55 PM

I personally am involved in projects that are aimed to promote BTC.

Not sure what that has to do with this discussion. Lots of people "are involved in projects". Lots of people aren't. It doesn't change the fact that either we need to be worried about a 51% attack, or their is nothing to fix and people just need to be educated. If the media was saying that Bitcoin transactions could be reversed, would you be saying that we need to change the protocol to fix it so they stop saying that?

Quote from: S4VV4S on June 18, 2014, 02:14:55 PM

And yes I "demand" (as you put it) for this "problem" to be fixed as to get BTC to acquire greater adoption.

A problem that you say doesn't exist needs to be fixed? You are familiar with the term "cognitive dissonance", right?

Quote from: S4VV4S on June 18, 2014, 02:14:55 PM

Seriously man, do you not read the news?

Generally? No. I've found that they rarely know what they are talking about and are more interested in improving revenue than delivering facts.

Quote from: S4VV4S on June 18, 2014, 02:14:55 PM

NOT everybody has the knowledge to understand that when a pool has 51% it doesn't necessarily mean destruction.

And we can't fix media FUD by changing a protocol.

Quote from: S4VV4S on June 18, 2014, 02:14:55 PM

We need to get rid of this issue if we want mass adoption.

Which is why we need to focus on education.

Quote from: S4VV4S on June 18, 2014, 02:14:55 PM

And you cannot expect the average Joe to have the knowledge you have on the subject.

I wouldn't expect the average Joe to be using a highly volatile, extremely risky, beta software safely at all.

Quote from: S4VV4S on June 18, 2014, 02:14:55 PM

If you want BTC to succeed then I advise you (just like you advised me) to put your knowledge and skills on how to get rid of this problem rather than - well basically - go bypassed it.

I don't care if it succeeds or not. It's an interesting experiment, and I look forward to seeing how it all plays out. I expect it to succeed, but there's certainly a possibility that the whole thing collapses in the future.

Quote from: S4VV4S on June 18, 2014, 02:14:55 PM

I don't understand why that is so difficult for you to comprehend.

I have no difficulty comprehending at all.

Quote from: S4VV4S on June 18, 2014, 02:14:55 PM

Gavin himself stated that he has a "solution" but it's currently not needed (or something along those lines).

Great. So nothing to worry about anymore then. We can all move on to other discussions.

Quote from: S4VV4S on June 18, 2014, 02:14:55 PM

When will it be needed, when we actually have a 51% attack?

Yes, obviously. No need to fix it unless it's actually broken.