{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","author_name":"npub1fx98zxt3lzspjs5f4msr0fxysx5euucm29ghysryju7vpc9j0jzqtcl2d8","author_url":"https://nostr.ae/npub1fx98zxt3lzspjs5f4msr0fxysx5euucm29ghysryju7vpc9j0jzqtcl2d8","provider_name":"njump","provider_url":"https://nostr.ae","html":"📅 Original date posted:2015-05-07\n📝 Original message:On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 4:52 PM, Gavin Andresen \u003cgavinandresen at gmail.com\u003e wrote:\n\u003e I would very much like to find some concrete course of action that we can\n\u003e come to consensus on. Some compromise so we can tell entrepreneurs \"THIS is\n\u003e how much transaction volume the main Bitcoin blockchain will be able to\n\u003e support over the next eleven years.\"\n\nMhmm, I hadn't thought about this. This makes sense and actually\nexplains the urgency on taking a decision better than anything else\nI've heard.\n\nOn Thu, May 7, 2015 at 5:29 PM, Mike Hearn \u003cmike at plan99.net\u003e wrote:\n\u003e If it's not raised, then ....... well, then we're in new territory entirely.\n\u003e Businesses built on the assumption that Bitcoin could become popular will\n\u003e suddenly have their basic assumptions invalidated. Users will leave. The\n\u003e technical code change would be zero, but the economic change would be\n\u003e significant.\n\nThis, on the other hand, is a non sequitur [1], another type of fallacy.\nWell, several of them, actually:\n\n- If it's not raised, then bitcoin cannot become popular\n- If it's not raised, then users will leave\n- Businesses built on the assumption that Bitcoin could become popular\nwere also assuming that it's going to be risen.\n\nThese statements may even be true, but they're no logical conclusions\neven if they seem obvious to you.\nI don't think those claims are strictly true, specially because they\ninvolve predictions about what people will do.\nBut if they're true they require some proof or at least some explanation.\n\n[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non_sequitur_(logic)#Affirming_the_consequent"}