<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><author_name>npub17ty4mumkv43w8wtt0xsz2jypck0gvw0j8xrcg6tpea25z2nh7meqf4qgyd</author_name><author_url>https://nostr.ae/npub17ty4mumkv43w8wtt0xsz2jypck0gvw0j8xrcg6tpea25z2nh7meqf4qgyd</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://nostr.ae</provider_url><html>📅 Original date posted:2015-07-22&#xA;📝 Original message:Hi Pieter,&#xA;&#xA;I think a core area of disagreement is this:&#xA;&#xA;&gt; Bitcoin Core is not running the Bitcoin economy, and its developers have&#xA;&gt; no authority to set its rules.&#xA;&gt;&#xA;In fact Bitcoin Core is running the Bitcoin economy, and its developers do&#xA;have the authority to set its rules. This is enforced by the reality of&#xA;~100% market share and limited github commit access.&#xA;&#xA;You may not like this situation, but it is what it is. By refusing to make&#xA;a release with different rules, people who disagree are faced with only two&#xA;options:&#xA;&#xA;1. Swallow it even if they hate it&#xA;2. Fork the project and fork the block chain with it (XT)&#xA;&#xA;There are no alternatives. People who object to (2) are inherently&#xA;suggesting (1) is the only acceptable path, which not surprisingly, makes a&#xA;lot of people very angry.&#xA;-------------- next part --------------&#xA;An HTML attachment was scrubbed...&#xA;URL: &lt;http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/attachments/20150722/36316a52/attachment.html&gt;</html></oembed>