Re: [Bitcoin-development] improving development model (Re: Concerns Regarding Threats by a Developer to Remove Commit Access from Other Developers

2015-06-19 Thread Tom Harding
On 6/19/2015 6:43 AM, Mike Hearn wrote: No surprise, the position of Blockstream employees is that hard forks must never happen and that everyone's ordinary transactions should go via some new network that doesn't yet exist. If my company were working on spiffy new ideas that required a hard

Re: [Bitcoin-development] improving development model (Re: Concerns Regarding Threats by a Developer to Remove Commit Access from Other Developers

2015-06-19 Thread Mike Hearn
Hi Adam, I am still confused about whether you actually support an increase in the block size limit to happen right now. As you agree that this layer 2 you speak of doesn't exist yet, and won't within the next 10-12 months (do you agree that actually?), can you please state clearly that you will

Re: [Bitcoin-development] improving development model (Re: Concerns Regarding Threats by a Developer to Remove Commit Access from Other Developers

2015-06-19 Thread Eric Lombrozo
IPv4 came before IPv6…you pick up on things quickly :) On Jun 19, 2015, at 5:48 AM, Marcel Jamin mar...@jamin.net wrote: At the risk of stating cliches, the Mac came before the Windows PC…Yahoo! came before Google…MySpace came before Facebook… And TCP/IP came before... oh wait...

Re: [Bitcoin-development] improving development model (Re: Concerns Regarding Threats by a Developer to Remove Commit Access from Other Developers

2015-06-19 Thread Eric Lombrozo
On Jun 19, 2015, at 3:45 AM, Dr Adam Back a...@cypherspace.org mailto:a...@cypherspace.org wrote: That wont be good for the companies either, but they may not see that until they've killed it, many companies operate on a1 or 2 year time-horizon. They may say screw layer2, I have a runway

Re: [Bitcoin-development] improving development model (Re: Concerns Regarding Threats by a Developer to Remove Commit Access from Other Developers

2015-06-19 Thread Milly Bitcoin
- Did you accept payment from companies to lobby for 20MB blocks? Do you consider that something appropriate to publicly disclose if so? Do you consider that user rights should come above or below company interests in Bitcoin? FWIW on pondering that last question should user rights come above