<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><author_name>npub13aunkws5nhdv85pnj6swqc2zrfpljn3q4mz92thskgsyum0qle0saykfmh</author_name><author_url>https://nostr.ae/npub13aunkws5nhdv85pnj6swqc2zrfpljn3q4mz92thskgsyum0qle0saykfmh</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://nostr.ae</provider_url><html>📅 Original date posted:2015-05-29&#xA;📝 Original message:How is this being pigheaded? In my opinion, this is leadership.  If&#xA;*something* isn&#39;t implemented soon, the network is going to have some real&#xA;problems, right at the&#xA;time when adoption is starting to accelerate.  I&#39;ve been seeing nothing but&#xA;navel-gazing and circlejerks on this issue for weeks now.  Gavin or Mike or&#xA;someone at some&#xA;point needs to step up and say &#34;follow me&#34;.&#xA;&#xA;Braun Brelin&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 5:00 PM, &lt;insecurity at national.shitposting.agency&gt;&#xA;wrote:&#xA;&#xA;&gt; Are you really that pig headed that you are going to try and blow up the&#xA;&gt; entire system just to get your way? A bunch of ignorant redditors do not&#xA;&gt; make consensus, mercifully.&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; On 2015-05-29 12:39, Gavin Andresen wrote:&#xA;&gt; &gt; What do other people think?&#xA;&gt; &gt;&#xA;&gt; &gt; If we can&#39;t come to an agreement soon, then I&#39;ll ask for help&#xA;&gt; &gt; reviewing/submitting patches to Mike&#39;s Bitcoin-Xt project that&#xA;&gt; &gt; implement a big increase now that grows over time so we may never have&#xA;&gt; &gt; to go through all this rancor and debate again.&#xA;&gt; &gt;&#xA;&gt; &gt; I&#39;ll then ask for help lobbying the merchant services and exchanges&#xA;&gt; &gt; and hosted wallet companies and other bitcoind-using-infrastructure&#xA;&gt; &gt; companies (and anybody who agrees with me that we need bigger blocks&#xA;&gt; &gt; sooner rather than later) to run Bitcoin-Xt instead of Bitcoin Core,&#xA;&gt; &gt; and state that they are running it. We&#39;ll be able to see uptake on the&#xA;&gt; &gt; network by monitoring client versions.&#xA;&gt; &gt;&#xA;&gt; &gt; Perhaps by the time that happens there will be consensus bigger blocks&#xA;&gt; &gt; are needed sooner rather than later; if so, great! The early&#xA;&gt; &gt; deployment will just serve as early testing, and all of the software&#xA;&gt; &gt; already deployed will ready for bigger blocks.&#xA;&gt; &gt;&#xA;&gt; &gt; But if there is still no consensus among developers but the &#34;bigger&#xA;&gt; &gt; blocks now&#34; movement is successful, I&#39;ll ask for help getting big&#xA;&gt; &gt; miners to do the same, and use the soft-fork block version voting&#xA;&gt; &gt; mechanism to (hopefully) get a majority and then a super-majority&#xA;&gt; &gt; willing to produce bigger blocks. The purpose of that process is to&#xA;&gt; &gt; prove to any doubters that they&#39;d better start supporting bigger&#xA;&gt; &gt; blocks or they&#39;ll be left behind, and to give them a chance to upgrade&#xA;&gt; &gt; before that happens.&#xA;&gt; &gt;&#xA;&gt; &gt; Because if we can&#39;t come to consensus here, the ultimate authority for&#xA;&gt; &gt; determining consensus is what code the majority of merchants and&#xA;&gt; &gt; exchanges and miners are running.&#xA;&gt; &gt;&#xA;&gt; &gt; --&#xA;&gt; &gt;&#xA;&gt; &gt; --&#xA;&gt; &gt; Gavin Andresen&#xA;&gt; &gt;&#xA;&gt; &gt;&#xA;&gt; ------------------------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;&gt; &gt;&#xA;&gt; &gt; _______________________________________________&#xA;&gt; &gt; Bitcoin-development mailing list&#xA;&gt; &gt; Bitcoin-development at lists.sourceforge.net&#xA;&gt; &gt; https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; ------------------------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;&gt; _______________________________________________&#xA;&gt; Bitcoin-development mailing list&#xA;&gt; Bitcoin-development at lists.sourceforge.net&#xA;&gt; https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development&#xA;&gt;&#xA;-------------- next part --------------&#xA;An HTML attachment was scrubbed...&#xA;URL: &lt;http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/attachments/20150529/6353ffbd/attachment.html&gt;</html></oembed>