{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","author_name":"npub1uu2fve28mkg68uequseraz8gee7qg64733lr9r2g4c0xs5pmqnuslr4rpf","author_url":"https://nostr.ae/npub1uu2fve28mkg68uequseraz8gee7qg64733lr9r2g4c0xs5pmqnuslr4rpf","provider_name":"njump","provider_url":"https://nostr.ae","html":"📅 Original date posted:2015-06-27\n📝 Original message:-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----\nHash: SHA1\n\nYes, Eric, blockchains are a means of mathematically determining\nconsensus among those who use them. The application goes beyond value\ntoken into the realm of vote and deterministic politics. Eventually,\nblockchains will allows citizens to choose state projects and to\ncontribute taxes according to their ability, and to benefit according\nto their need.\n\nEconomic Participants\nThe dichotomy of the mining operator as an economic class on one hand\nand the user as a dependent on the other is based on the current\nKeynesian model of economics that views the centralized as inevitable\nand the citizen as a consumer to be enlisted into spending at every\nopportunity.\n\nSchools of Thought\nAlthough not a definitive answer, the Austrian School of Economics\nillustrates that the Keynesian model (which we all harbor to some\ndegree, thanks to its global hegemony) is fundamentally flawed:\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLfnpwHu4Hw (Of all the resources\navailable, this speaker is most succinct, although I cannot vouch for\nhis degree of Frankfurt School compliance or potential Zionist\nleanings - the account conforms to academic agreement of what the\nAustrian School of Economics stands for).\n\nDevelopers are, by necessity, making economic decisions\nIf the developers will seize this moment of having to make economic\ndecisions about how Bitcoin will be influenced and grow according to\nmarket dynamics, they should make an informed decision (only the\ndevelopers can make the decision at this time), they should strive to\nmake a well-informed decision - not some fumbled\n\"hurry-the-blocksize-is-running-out\" decision. Pieter Wuille argues\nthe point convincingly in his initial post.\n\nFulcrum\nThe fundamental question to be answered here is: Do developers want to\ncompete with existing payment networks, or do developers want to\ndefine Bitcoin's network in its own right?\n\nIf Bitcoin must compete and win, then centralize it and it will soon\nbeat the competition on every metric.\n\nIf Bitcoin is its own beast, then users and finance capital must adapt\nto its constraints, for the benefit of all involved.\n\nDevelopers have a crucial role to play in implementing economic\npolicy. It's not self-evident: a multinational or government sponsored\nentity mining this blockchain with the purpose of dominating it does\nnot mean you have done your job of surrendering Bitcoin to the \"free\nmarket\".\n\n\nThe decision rests on your informed understanding of economics (and\nmyths about economics) and choosing the way that liberates Bitcoin and\nits users, and does not co-opt them into a system that seeks to devour\ncompetition. Talk about making Bitcoin more compliant to finance\ncapital business is counter-Bitcoin and speakers harboring this\nopinion have come to dominate discussion here. If increased business\nand user adoption truly increased value, you would see it in the price\nchart. What has ignorant, fashion-prone mainstreet adoption done for\nBitcoin? Will it really do something else, as some posters claim, or\nwill it do more of the same?\n\nVenzen Khaosan\n\n\n\nOn 06/27/2015 09:18 AM, Eric Lombrozo wrote:\n\u003e I’ve been pondering this whole scale issue considerably…and am left\n\u003e with the conclusion that blockchains are ultimately dispute\n\u003e resolution mechanisms. The vast majority of crypto negotiation will\n\u003e be taking place at levels lesser than global consensus in the\n\u003e future - global consensus is just far too expensive to require for\n\u003e every single cappuccino. There really is little need to take most\n\u003e cases globally…unless the participants disagree. I’ve commented in\n\u003e other places that blockchains are essentially a “fix” to the\n\u003e prisoner’s dilemma - they make cooperation the equilibrium\n\u003e strategy.\n\u003e \n\u003e Regardless of whatever linear factor we scale the blockchain by, it\n\u003e is simple math to see that any exponential growth (even if for a\n\u003e short time) in usage will overwhelm the current network. If we ever\n\u003e intend to take bitcoin mainstream, we will most likely experience\n\u003e at least a short time of exponential growth…at least until we\n\u003e either reach an inherent limitation or until we saturate. As Pieter\n\u003e said earlier, FAPP right now the demand for payments might as well\n\u003e be infinite. We’re nowhere near the ability to service it all.\n\u003e \n\u003e The block size issue is really a usability issue at this point.\n\u003e There are two fundamental things we need to solve:\n\u003e \n\u003e 1) There’s no model for how we’ll introduce a fee market, even\n\u003e though the design of Bitcoin fundamentally depends on fees for its\n\u003e survival (at least in the current form of the design.)\n\u003e \n\u003e 2) There’s no mechanism for how to perform fee bidding and\n\u003e estimation. Most wallets simply have no way to do this without\n\u003e serious usability problems.\n\u003e \n\u003e \n\u003e \n\u003e If we’re going to talk about block fees, let’s keep it in the\n\u003e context of these relevant issues and not confound it with the\n\u003e scalability issue…these are two very different issues.\n\u003e \n\u003e \n\u003e - Eric Lombrozo\n\u003e \n\u003e \n\u003e\u003e On Jun 26, 2015, at 1:44 PM, Owen Gunden \u003cogunden at phauna.org\u003e\n\u003e\u003e wrote:\n\u003e\u003e \n\u003e\u003e On 06/26/2015 02:23 PM, Jeff Garzik wrote:\n\u003e\u003e\u003e Failure to plan now for a hard fork increase 6(?) months in the\n\u003e\u003e\u003e future produces that lumpy, unpredictable market behavior.\n\u003e\u003e\u003e \n\u003e\u003e\u003e The market has baked in the years-long behavior of low fees.\n\u003e\u003e\u003e From the market PoV, inaction does lead to precisely that, a\n\u003e\u003e\u003e sudden change over the span of a few months.\n\u003e\u003e \n\u003e\u003e Which market participants are you referring to?\n\u003e\u003e \n\u003e\u003e I entered the bitcoin market with open eyes, aware that it faces\n\u003e\u003e hard scalability challenges by design. I was also aware that\n\u003e\u003e because of these challenges, eventually transaction fees would\n\u003e\u003e have to rise.\n\u003e\u003e \n\u003e\u003e Nevertheless, I made the decision to invest because of the\n\u003e\u003e utility I gain from the anti-censorship, privacy, control, store\n\u003e\u003e of value, and security aspects of bitcoin -- many of which stem\n\u003e\u003e from decentralization, which others have demonstrated to be\n\u003e\u003e linked to the block size.\n\u003e\u003e \n\u003e\u003e On the other hand, there are undoubtedly other market\n\u003e\u003e participants who heard hype about \"zero fee transactions to\n\u003e\u003e anywhere in the world\", believed it would scale, and made\n\u003e\u003e (mal)investments as a result.\n\u003e\u003e \n\u003e\u003e As for how many market participants of each flavor, and how deep\n\u003e\u003e their respective pockets, who knows? My experience in markets has\n\u003e\u003e lead me to realize that it's never wise to assume I know what\n\u003e\u003e \"the market\" does and doesn't know. If Jeff Garzik is right about\n\u003e\u003e what the market has priced in, then yes, filled blocks will be\n\u003e\u003e rocking the boat. But who's to say that the smartest, biggest\n\u003e\u003e investors and traders don't already see this scaling problem, and\n\u003e\u003e have already priced it in? In this case, a sudden large increase\n\u003e\u003e in the block size is actually rocking the boat. The point is, you\n\u003e\u003e can't know either way, so trying to pre-empt the market in this\n\u003e\u003e way is erroneous.\n\u003e\u003e \n\u003e\u003e Regarding entrepreneurial investment specifically, why should we\n\u003e\u003e favor the entrepreneurs who require a more centralized bitcoin\n\u003e\u003e over those who were more considerate of the possibility of rising\n\u003e\u003e transaction fees when making their business models?\n\u003e\u003e \n\u003e\u003e In my mind, we should favor neither, which is why I'm basically\n\u003e\u003e in agreement with Pieter that this sense of \"emergency\" shouldn't\n\u003e\u003e really be a part of the debate.\n\u003e\u003e \n\u003e\u003e Not that I'm taking a stand on the specific block size issue\n\u003e\u003e either way. I just think this particular line of reasoning\n\u003e\u003e (presupposing what information the market has and has not already\n\u003e\u003e baked in) is unsound. \n\u003e\u003e _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev\n\u003e\u003e mailing list bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org \n\u003e\u003e https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev\n\u003e \n\u003e \n\u003e \n\u003e _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing\n\u003e list bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org \n\u003e https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev\n\u003e \n-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----\nVersion: GnuPG v1\n\niQEcBAEBAgAGBQJVjlvYAAoJEGwAhlQc8H1malgH/jKkN27KpNecMQPcSZ+RX/s8\nUDIvrqIsNesWUtwnWk1/2WcaoDA8V9ho42VPXmDgGh0GTmYKzKnBUuKPeIBfe1z+\nXCtG7OeWRAlo+1Zk+dT8Crv/PEHocpy7q2OFW2iOapWfTEYO/1FTA58RYMYSmKXQ\n0snm3QhVIdJA3/3BE12616y0+Oo2aV3H9El6buqQVge/26Z8X8TLIsY5h8dQbTBF\n+J9Kq1YdJc8ogANZBpZfZBnURmNRsolyvQ+Sb5SxnpPQz73X3QPGaTyjnNsE0oVX\nOccxx6BREN/byoelIS5HMRsEYExmALIisXTiM1kysKzbcYp+ysB6Uzvyp1GzbFg=\n=PE+q\n-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----"}