{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","author_name":"npub1elukp7mw8u8j8ll4u9rnzp3y95plykvepdyx2uekam7ucxx2f56smdc8ht","author_url":"https://nostr.ae/npub1elukp7mw8u8j8ll4u9rnzp3y95plykvepdyx2uekam7ucxx2f56smdc8ht","provider_name":"njump","provider_url":"https://nostr.ae","html":"📅 Original date posted:2015-05-29\n📝 Original message:Are you really that pig headed that you are going to try and blow up the \nentire system just to get your way? A bunch of ignorant redditors do not \nmake consensus, mercifully.\n\n\nOn 2015-05-29 12:39, Gavin Andresen wrote:\n\u003e What do other people think?\n\u003e \n\u003e If we can't come to an agreement soon, then I'll ask for help\n\u003e reviewing/submitting patches to Mike's Bitcoin-Xt project that\n\u003e implement a big increase now that grows over time so we may never have\n\u003e to go through all this rancor and debate again.\n\u003e \n\u003e I'll then ask for help lobbying the merchant services and exchanges\n\u003e and hosted wallet companies and other bitcoind-using-infrastructure\n\u003e companies (and anybody who agrees with me that we need bigger blocks\n\u003e sooner rather than later) to run Bitcoin-Xt instead of Bitcoin Core,\n\u003e and state that they are running it. We'll be able to see uptake on the\n\u003e network by monitoring client versions.\n\u003e \n\u003e Perhaps by the time that happens there will be consensus bigger blocks\n\u003e are needed sooner rather than later; if so, great! The early\n\u003e deployment will just serve as early testing, and all of the software\n\u003e already deployed will ready for bigger blocks.\n\u003e \n\u003e But if there is still no consensus among developers but the \"bigger\n\u003e blocks now\" movement is successful, I'll ask for help getting big\n\u003e miners to do the same, and use the soft-fork block version voting\n\u003e mechanism to (hopefully) get a majority and then a super-majority\n\u003e willing to produce bigger blocks. The purpose of that process is to\n\u003e prove to any doubters that they'd better start supporting bigger\n\u003e blocks or they'll be left behind, and to give them a chance to upgrade\n\u003e before that happens.\n\u003e \n\u003e Because if we can't come to consensus here, the ultimate authority for\n\u003e determining consensus is what code the majority of merchants and\n\u003e exchanges and miners are running.\n\u003e \n\u003e --\n\u003e \n\u003e --\n\u003e Gavin Andresen\n\u003e \n\u003e ------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\u003e \n\u003e _______________________________________________\n\u003e Bitcoin-development mailing list\n\u003e Bitcoin-development at lists.sourceforge.net\n\u003e https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development"}