Who is actually planning to move to Bitcoin-XT if this happens? 

Just Gavin and Mike?



> On Jun 15, 2015, at 6:17 PM, Faiz Khan <faizkha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm quite puzzled by the response myself, it doesn't seem to address some of 
> the (more serious) concerns that Adam put out, the most important question 
> that was asked being the one regarding personal ownership of the proposed 
> fork:
> 
> "How do you plan to deal with security & incident response for the duration 
> you describe where you will have control while you are deploying the 
> unilateral hard-fork and being in sole maintainership control?"
> 
> I do genuinely hope that whomever (now and future) wishes to fork the 
> protocol reconsider first whether they are truly ready to test/flex their 
> reputation/skills/resources in this way... Intuitively, to me it seems 
> counterproductive, and I don't fully believe it is within a single 
> developer's talents to manage the process start-to-finish (as it is 
> non-trivial to hard-fork successfully, others have rehashed this in other 
> threads)... 
> 
> That being said I think it appropriate if Adam's questions were responded 
> in-line when Mike is feeling up to it. I think that the answers are important 
> for the community to hear when such a drastic change is being espoused. 
> 
> Faiz
> 
>> On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 4:56 PM, Bryan Bishop <kanz...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 3:55 PM, Mike Hearn <m...@plan99.net> wrote:
>>> Re: anyone who agrees with noted non-programmers Mike&Gavin must be 
>>> non-technical, stupid, uninformed, etc .... OK, go ahead and show them the 
>>> error of their ways. Anyone can write blogs.
>> 
>> I worry that if this is the level of care you take with reading and 
>> (mis)interpreting Adam's messages, that you might not be taking extreme care 
>> with evaluating consensus changes, even while tired or sleeping. I encourage 
>> you to evaluate both messages and source code more carefully, especially in 
>> the world of bitcoin. However, this goes for everyone and not just you. 
>> Specifically, when Adam mentioned your conversations with non-technical 
>> people, he did not mean "Mike has talked with people who have possibly not 
>> made pull requests to Bitcoin Core, so therefore Mike is a non-programmer". 
>> Communication is difficult and I can understand that, but we really have to 
>> be more careful when evaluating each other's messages; technical 
>> miscommunication can be catastrophic in this context. On the topic of 
>> whether you are a programmer, I suspect that ever since you built CIA.vc we 
>> have all known you're a programmer, Mike.
>> 
>> - Bryan
>> http://heybryan.org/
>> 1 512 203 0507
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>> My regards,
>> 
>> Faiz Khan
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