<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><author_name>npub1z3pv699thu72ewq38lny6cj5dx0xq6ft6mwlckjfus5qta4rx0gs7s35aw</author_name><author_url>https://nostr.ae/npub1z3pv699thu72ewq38lny6cj5dx0xq6ft6mwlckjfus5qta4rx0gs7s35aw</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://nostr.ae</provider_url><html>📅 Original date posted:2015-10-06&#xA;📝 Original message:Hey all, nice to meet you... I&#39;m new to the community and thus, after taking that first step of signing up, have been reading/scanning these threads over the last few days without contributing my own two ¢-- not, um, &#39;trolling&#39;, just, you know, educating myself and getting familiar with the group ethos and etiquette.  &#xA;&#xA;It wasn&#39;t until I&#39;d read ~10 posts that I  understood the initial purpose of the thread!  As few others have mentioned, I&#39;m a bit surprised, at all the back and forth à la hip-hop &#39;battling&#39; ;-) It certainly obfuscates-- while entertaining-- to the point where a newbie like myself might drop out... Perhaps this is intentional-- to maintain exclusivity and weed out the uninitiated.  I dunno.  But if not, I&#39;m just noting, as something of an outsider, that it took a while.&#xA;&#xA;But I&#39;d like to contribute.  With what little knowledge I possess, I&#39;m inclined to favor hardfork... Is there a more suitable place to address this?  Perhaps to work on code?  For this specific project, that is...  Anyone point me to a map somewhere?  LOL.&#xA;&#xA;Thanks to all for reading, and much admiration to you all and the work you&#39;ve done, my latter comments notwithstanding!  &#xA;&#xA;Cheers,&#xA;N&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&gt; On Oct 6, 2015, at 11:28 AM, Venzen Khaosan via bitcoin-dev &lt;bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org&gt; wrote:&#xA;&gt; &#xA;&gt; -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----&#xA;&gt; Hash: SHA1&#xA;&gt; &#xA;&gt; That&#39;s for Mike Hearn. Sooner the better. Hong Kong, December?&#xA;&gt; Venzen Khaosan&#xA;&gt; &#xA;&gt; &#xA;&gt;&gt; On 10/07/2015 01:23 AM, Venzen Khaosan via bitcoin-dev wrote:&#xA;&gt;&gt; Tell you what, eloquent guy...&#xA;&gt;&gt; &#xA;&gt;&gt; Give me 15 minutes in a public open mic session with you and i&#39;ll &#xA;&gt;&gt; remove you from your high horse and close your voice in Bitcoin,&#xA;&gt;&gt; for good.&#xA;&gt;&gt; &#xA;&gt;&gt; Guaranteed. You&#39;re too stupid for me to let you run loose with&#xA;&gt;&gt; client funds and this great innovation.&#xA;&gt;&gt; &#xA;&gt;&gt; Anytime, anywhere. I&#39;m ready to dismantle your intellectual&#xA;&gt;&gt; bankruptcy in front of the world.&#xA;&gt;&gt; &#xA;&gt;&gt; I&#39;ll go for your psychological throat first.&#xA;&gt;&gt; &#xA;&gt;&gt; Sincerely, Venzen Khaosan.&#xA;&gt;&gt; &#xA;&gt;&gt; &#xA;&gt;&gt; &#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt; On 10/05/2015 11:56 PM, Mike Hearn via bitcoin-dev wrote:&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt; Hey Sergio,&#xA;&gt;&gt; &#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt; To clarify: my /single/ objection is that CLTV should be a hard &#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt; fork. I haven&#39;t been raising never-ending technical objections, &#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt; there&#39;s only one.&#xA;&gt;&gt; &#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt; I /have/ been answering all the various reasons being brought up &#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt; why I&#39;m wrong and soft forks are awesome .... and there do seem&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt; to be a limitless number of such emails .... but on my side it&#39;s&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt; still just a single objection. If CLTV is a hard fork then I&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt; won&#39;t be objecting anymore, right?&#xA;&gt;&gt; &#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt; CLTV deployment is clearly controversial. Many developers other &#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt; than me have noted that hard forks are cleaner, and have other &#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt; desirable properties. I&#39;m not the only one who sees a big&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt; question mark over soft forks.&#xA;&gt;&gt; &#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt; As everyone in the Bitcoin community has been clearly told that &#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt; controversial changes to the consensus rules must not happen,&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt; it&#39;s clear that CLTV cannot happen in its current form.&#xA;&gt;&gt; &#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt; Now I&#39;ll be frank - you are quite correct that I fully expect&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt; the Core maintainers to ignore this controversy and do CLTV as a&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt; soft fork anyway. I&#39;m a cynic. I don&#39;t think &#34;everyone must&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt; agree&#34; is workable and have said so from the start. Faced with a&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt; choice of going back on their public statements or having to make&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt; changes to something they clearly want, I expect them to redefine&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt; what &#34;real consensus&#34; means. I hope I&#39;m wrong, but if I&#39;m not&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt; ..... well, at least everyone will see what Gavin and I have been&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt; talking about for so many months.&#xA;&gt;&gt; &#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt; But I&#39;d rather the opcode is tweaked. There&#39;s real financial&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt; risks to a soft fork.&#xA;&gt;&gt; &#xA;&gt;&gt; &#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt; _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt; mailing list bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org &#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt; https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev&#xA;&gt;&gt; &#xA;&gt;&gt; _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing&#xA;&gt;&gt; list bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org &#xA;&gt;&gt; https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev&#xA;&gt; -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----&#xA;&gt; Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux)&#xA;&gt; &#xA;&gt; iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJWFBLWAAoJEGwAhlQc8H1mRM8H/0p2sz0gtu62bB+NrllRgU20&#xA;&gt; C4imzMr904X7JicqDsGhtySGdyk8DuHBSK4k1A3pOgPb+DoNQhcOUfZ2ZTNgR2tT&#xA;&gt; yjJHrJP2X+g8YixyQiQNBf65bogTgeBGEizh/H33RSGzdHwoIfeVS5Qja/AMUnk1&#xA;&gt; 4XO8d+t5OdtYdKANmR/uUZikrnOXd6KIt9rmJhYUjqmLWXbHzQkhES0mFvJ1BdVZ&#xA;&gt; ZHNjnWzoE74NAEmPqhhhtU/GCFKQhBq7HHAnqkMoeWk0mgJoGCc+b/4/PwchmUJq&#xA;&gt; CmVO2TJFrnHb4tYAFgw14tdbSe5ERYT0pHW4qM3gJlYL1ik03k0iQDZZ0eStaXM=&#xA;&gt; =bwvw&#xA;&gt; -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----&#xA;&gt; _______________________________________________&#xA;&gt; bitcoin-dev mailing list&#xA;&gt; bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org&#xA;&gt; https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev</html></oembed>