Since it seems that he owns a decent stash the stockholders could try to organize to recover something. As an owner of 200 shares on Havelock I would happily pay 50% of whatever is recovered in my name to whoever does the job.

A second fork has followed the initial post BIP 66 fork further highlighting the continued danger of so called "soft" forking changes to the consensus code of Bitcoin network clients. The second fork persisted from 21:50 through to 23:40 on July 5th, 2015. Implementing the rather non-controversial change proposed by BIP 66 to enforce strict DER encoding on ECDSA signatures has without a doubt increased the fragility of the Bitcoin network such that users of all Bitcoin clients ought to consider waiting beyond the traditional 6 mined blocks before considering a transaction confirmed. Unless all major miners begin mining with fully validating node software, this instability is likely to continue indefinitely into the future with users of the latest versions of "Bitcoin Core" at risk of finding themselves stranded, maybe even permanently on the short side of an enduring fork.

Meuh, je n'ai jamais été gentil avec toi, mais je pense que nous sommes
sur des lignes de pensées qui se croisent parfois en fait lol

Just look at Etereum. 400% increase in 1 month = mega bubble.

Un article grand public aujourd'hui : http://www.20minutes.fr/high-tech/2025827-20170306-veux-investir-bitcoin-voila-conseils-experts

They perceive it as going against their interests. But this perception appears flawed.

Bitcoin needs scaling improvements like lightning in order to thrive in the long term.
A non-scalable bitcoin will ultimately be overtaken by a better-scalable competitor.

I agree.  Likewise, given the difficulty of changes now as shown by segwit and block size changes, any further changes will be even more difficult to get consensus.  And this isn't necessarily a bad thing, changes should be very difficult to make barring something catastrophic (e.g March 2013).  Think about changing tcp/ip.

Je préfère voter pour ceux qui sont censurés : http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5ckfp4

Encore pire que les journaux crypto comme cancer, les goldbugs !

I'd like to see a detailed investigation into how much of the economy is committing to support it; how much is actually doing verification rather than just blindly trusting miners; the popularity and expected behavior of each end-user wallet software; etc.

HDbuck,

that only applies, if we break to 700 by the mid february, yes? If it will take us longer through extended consolidation and multiweek bear market... we could revisit five hundreds...

Your opinion on this? Any updates on Masterluc position?

They've also changed consensus rules, BIP66 changed signature validation, making it more selective. And it was an important consensus change, too.

Dunno. In those same 4 years, there were maybe a half dozen soft forks? Some of those were rule changes, albeit changes in preexisting rules. Do soft forks, of which there are demonstrably many, not count?