Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. - Plato
> On Aug 19, 2015, at 1:11 PM, Eric Lombrozo <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Alex, > > With all due respect, right now the biggest challenge facing Bitcoin is not > technical but political. I would love to see this list go back to technical > discussions, but unfortunately, until this political stuff is resolved, even > technical discussion is purely philosophical as there’s little chance of > actually making good progress on consensus…which in a space where everything > depends on consensus pretty much makes everything else moot. > >> On Aug 19, 2015, at 1:08 PM, Alex Morcos via bitcoin-dev >> <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> This is a message that I wrote and had hoped that all the core devs would >> sign on to, but I failed to finish organizing it. So I'll just say it from >> myself. >> >> There has been a valuable discussion over the last several months regarding >> a hard fork with respect to block size. However the sheer volume of email >> and proportion of discussion that is more philosophical than technical has >> rendered this list almost unusable for its primary purpose of technical >> discussion related to Bitcoin development. Many of us share the blame for >> letting the discourse run off topic to such a degree, and we hope that an >> appeal for individual self restraint will allow this list to return to a >> higher signal-to-noise ratio. >> -Please consider the degree to which any email you send is related to >> technical development before sending it. >> -Please consider how many emails you are sending to this list regarding the >> same topic. >> This list is not appropriate for an endless back and forth debate on the >> philosophical underpinnings of Bitcoin. Although such a debate may be >> worthwhile it should be taken to another forum for discussion. Every email >> you send is received by hundreds of developers who value their time as much >> as you value yours. If your intended audience isn't really the majority of >> them, perhaps private communication would be more appropriate. >> >> Thanks, >> Alex >> >> _______________________________________________ >> bitcoin-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]> >> https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev >> <https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev> >
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