rich1.0npub1elukp7mw8u8j8ll4u9rnzp3y95plykvepdyx2uekam7ucxx2f56smdc8hthttps://nostr.ae/npub1elukp7mw8u8j8ll4u9rnzp3y95plykvepdyx2uekam7ucxx2f56smdc8htnjumphttps://nostr.ae📅 Original date posted:2015-05-29 📝 Original message:Are you really that pig headed that you are going to try and blow up the entire system just to get your way? A bunch of ignorant redditors do not make consensus, mercifully. On 2015-05-29 12:39, Gavin Andresen wrote: > What do other people think? > > If we can't come to an agreement soon, then I'll ask for help > reviewing/submitting patches to Mike's Bitcoin-Xt project that > implement a big increase now that grows over time so we may never have > to go through all this rancor and debate again. > > I'll then ask for help lobbying the merchant services and exchanges > and hosted wallet companies and other bitcoind-using-infrastructure > companies (and anybody who agrees with me that we need bigger blocks > sooner rather than later) to run Bitcoin-Xt instead of Bitcoin Core, > and state that they are running it. We'll be able to see uptake on the > network by monitoring client versions. > > Perhaps by the time that happens there will be consensus bigger blocks > are needed sooner rather than later; if so, great! The early > deployment will just serve as early testing, and all of the software > already deployed will ready for bigger blocks. > > But if there is still no consensus among developers but the "bigger > blocks now" movement is successful, I'll ask for help getting big > miners to do the same, and use the soft-fork block version voting > mechanism to (hopefully) get a majority and then a super-majority > willing to produce bigger blocks. The purpose of that process is to > prove to any doubters that they'd better start supporting bigger > blocks or they'll be left behind, and to give them a chance to upgrade > before that happens. > > Because if we can't come to consensus here, the ultimate authority for > determining consensus is what code the majority of merchants and > exchanges and miners are running. > > -- > > -- > Gavin Andresen > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Bitcoin-development mailing list > Bitcoin-development at lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development