Quote from: jwinterm on November 08, 2014, 06:34:42 PM

Quote from: rpietila on November 08, 2014, 06:30:46 PM

If the issue could be lived with, considering how critical the sanctity of fixed emission speed is, surely the debate would have died out months ago! Is anyone proposing that Bitcoin change emission? I mean seriously. If this matter did not have the support of the majority of the Monero owners, the proponents of slower emission would have just sold and moved on.

That it is still ongoing, indicates that we love Monero, and want it to live, which, in our opinion can be secured by slower curve - foremost because that leaves more emission for the rapid adoption phase and thwarts the risk of a "fair fork" later on, but also because it contributes to the short term market situation, which is at the point where anyone with serious money does not want to invest and current community cannot find the rationale for spending time on the coin whose future is endangered.

If the emission is really such a terrible problem, then why isn't boolberry or another cryptonote with slower emission taking more of the total cryptonote market cap? Are you suggesting extending the emission by more than a factor of two (I believe boolberry is emitted twice as slowly as monero)?

The emission debate did die out months ago, with a better than rough consensus that the possible benefits of slower emission are outweighed by the 100% certain loss of trust resulting from breaking the social contract:

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https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=585480.0

(no change) - 42 (63.6%)

The debate was only revived due to the recent drop in BTC and XMR prices causing whale panic attacks.

Good point about other BBR already offering slower emission. How about the MEW dumps their XMR, changes to become the BEW, and leaves us alone? Grin