{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","author_name":"npub1g97v5rt5sguagjk0cetckrhhmr3hded8u4vwe5keqphe7ye9tgfsv323pl","author_url":"https://nostr.ae/npub1g97v5rt5sguagjk0cetckrhhmr3hded8u4vwe5keqphe7ye9tgfsv323pl","provider_name":"njump","provider_url":"https://nostr.ae","html":"📅 Original date posted:2015-08-15\n📝 Original message:If this proposal has less than half of the total hashpower (or is it even\nless than 75%? Haven't quite thought it through completely) supporting it,\nI can see the following happening if the sum of supporters and people who\nwant to screw the supporters out of money is at least 75%:\nNon-supporters create blocks with the new version, but don't actually\nimplement the rule. Then after the new rule is locked in, miners will\ncreate too-large blocks that are rejected by the majority. If the\npercentage is less than half, then from their perspective, they will\nessentially be on the losing  side of a soft fork, and they'll be losing\nmoney by mining for nothing, even from their perspective and that of e.g.\nusers and merchants who have upgraded.\n\nOn Saturday, August 15, 2015, Milly Bitcoin via bitcoin-dev \u003c\nbitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org\u003e wrote:\n\n\u003e So if you want a user vote, that's an issue that'd have to be tackled:\n\u003e\u003e the people who admin the main communication channels Bitcoin users have\n\u003e\u003e vowed to censor any program that doesn't slavishly follow 51%+ hash\n\u003e\u003e power. That attempt to control the conversation is certainly not\n\u003e\u003e libertarian or democratic in nature, but there you go.\n\u003e\u003e\n\u003e\n\u003e These types of actions are immediately apparent to anyone who looks at the\n\u003e Bitcoin ecosystem (Bitcoin.org, Githib, Wiki, bitcointalk, etc.) and were\n\u003e readily apparent long before any block size debate.  It is almost a taboo\n\u003e subject and anyone who raises these types of issues is immediately labeled\n\u003e as a \"troll.\"  These are the people who used to run around saying that\n\u003e Bitcoin development is \"decentralized\" because anyone can fork the code and\n\u003e now many of the same people claim a fork will destroy everything.\n\u003e\n\u003e The problem is that a small group of highly irrational and inexperienced\n\u003e people (outside of the small and unusual Bitcoin ecosystem) have control\n\u003e over the majority of the resources.  I think over time the problem will\n\u003e even itself out but currently it is an obstacle in moving Bitcoin forward.\n\u003e\n\u003e Russ\n\u003e\n\u003e\n\u003e _______________________________________________\n\u003e bitcoin-dev mailing list\n\u003e bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org\n\u003e https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev\n\u003e\n-------------- next part --------------\nAn HTML attachment was scrubbed...\nURL: \u003chttp://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/attachments/20150815/65208c23/attachment.html\u003e"}