<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><author_name>npub1m230cem2yh3mtdzkg32qhj73uytgkyg5ylxsu083n3tpjnajxx4qqa2np2</author_name><author_url>https://nostr.ae/npub1m230cem2yh3mtdzkg32qhj73uytgkyg5ylxsu083n3tpjnajxx4qqa2np2</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://nostr.ae</provider_url><html>📅 Original date posted:2016-05-11&#xA;📝 Original message:On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 03:16:58PM -0700, Simon Liu via bitcoin-dev wrote:&#xA;&gt; &gt; giving one&#xA;&gt; &gt; manufacturer/licenser a huge influence in who is successful in a market&#xA;&gt; &gt; that we&#39;re all relying on remaining rather flat.&#xA;&gt; &#xA;&gt; Central planning is a slippery slope.  Let the market decide the winners&#xA;&gt; and losers.  It&#39;s not feasible to hard fork every time an innovation or&#xA;&gt; perceived unfair advantage appears in the space.&#xA;&#xA;That&#39;s why we&#39;re asking the market right now, and any actual hard-fork to make&#xA;AsicBoost irrelevant would be voted on by miners themselves and in turn, the&#xA;economic majority, again letting the market collectively decide.&#xA;&#xA;-- &#xA;https://petertodd.org &#39;peter&#39;[:-1]@petertodd.org&#xA;-------------- next part --------------&#xA;A non-text attachment was scrubbed...&#xA;Name: signature.asc&#xA;Type: application/pgp-signature&#xA;Size: 455 bytes&#xA;Desc: Digital signature&#xA;URL: &lt;http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/attachments/20160511/2ab40e5b/attachment.sig&gt;</html></oembed>