{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","author_name":"npub1qf6k0f8p0h89d43l0vnx2xp5yrfgjyl8tg3hkg8jtyudrllgw2usdlfn9a","author_url":"https://nostr.ae/npub1qf6k0f8p0h89d43l0vnx2xp5yrfgjyl8tg3hkg8jtyudrllgw2usdlfn9a","provider_name":"njump","provider_url":"https://nostr.ae","html":"📅 Original date posted:2015-06-18\n📝 Original message:-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----\nHash: SHA512\n\nOn 2015-06-18 14:53, Jeff Garzik wrote:\n\u003e Consensus changes - worded another way - change Bitcoin's Constitution \n\u003e -\n\u003e The Rules that everyone in the system is -forced- to follow, or be \n\u003e ignored\n\u003e by the system.\n\nForce is not a helpful or accurate way to describe the situation.\n\nThe purpose of Bitcoin to let people trade with each other, and trade \nrequires mutual agreement.\n\nIf some people choose not to trade under certain terms, they aren't \n\"forcing\" anybody to do anything. They are simply refraining from \nproposed interactions. Not granting them the right to do this would \nactually be forcing them to engage in interactions against their will.\n\nIt's an unavoidable reality that Bitcoin's usefulness is related to the \nsize (really: economic output) of the group of people who can be \nconvinced that it's in their best interest to agree on a common trade \nprotocol.\n\nConversations that feature untrue claims about someone forcing someone \nelse to do something is the opposite of a viable strategy for growing \nthe size of that group.\n\nArguments about who violated what Bitcoin Core internal governance \nprocedures are not interesting to most Bitcoin users, who generally \ndon't know or care who has commit access to the repository.\n\nGetting angry at Gavin and Mike for providing Bitcoin users with an \nalternative which they can freely choose or reject is not helpful in \npersuading users to stay with Bitcoin Core. Making the case why the \nchanges in Bitcoin XT are not beneficial to Bitcoin users could be.\n\nFor better or for worse, Bitcoin coin users are going to run the \nsoftware they perceive to be in their best interests.  Nobody can stop \nthem from making that choice and any effort directed at that end is \nwasted.\n\nIt's more productive to expend effort making sure the current and future \nBitcoin users are as informed as possible about the long term and short \nterm consequences of their choices.\n\nCircling back to the original quote:\n\nOn 2015-06-18 14:53, Jeff Garzik wrote:\n\u003e Consensus changes - worded another way - change Bitcoin's Constitution \n\u003e -\n\u003e The Rules that everyone in the system is -forced- to follow, or be \n\u003e ignored\n\u003e by the system.\n\nBitcoin does not and can not function as a set of rules imposed by some \npeople onto other people. Bitcoin is a negotiation about the best way \nfor money to function in the future. The only way we get people to use \nBitcoin is to convince them that the benefits they gain from agreeing to \nits protocol outweigh the downsides they encounter.\n\nI'm confident that this case can be made successfully but a prerequisite \nto a successful negotiation is recognizing that it is, in fact, a \nnegotiation, and that the other parties have full agency and the right \nto walk away if mutual agreement is not reached.\n\nMy suggestion is to spend less time talking about procedural violations \nand more time convincing Bitcoin users that Bitcoin Core is the best \nclient for them to use, especially if the process of convincing them \ninvolves making improvements which the users are asking for (or making a \nvery compelling case about why the users should reconsider).\n\n-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----\nVersion: GnuPG v2\n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\nW+t/BYV6XtsAUKI+dAly\n=3KeB\n-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----"}