On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 09:37:06PM +0300, Santino Napolitano wrote:
> I disagree. I think all client-side adoption of SW reliably tells you is that 
> those implementers saw value in it greater than the cost of implementation. 
> It's possible what they valued was the malleability fix and didn't see the 
> limited potential circumvention of MAX_BLOCK_SIZE material to their decision.
> 
> They could just as easily attach an OP_RETURN output to all of their 
> transactions which pushes "big blocks please" which would more directly 
> indicate their preference for larger blocks. You could also let hand-signed 
> letters from the heads of businesses explicitly stating their desire speak 
> for their intentions vs. any of this nonsense. Or the media interviews, forum 
> comments, tweets, etc...

Note that English-language measures of Bitcoin usage/activity are very
misleading, as a significant - probably super majority - of economnic
activity happens outside the English language, Western world.
Centralized forums such as twitter and reddit are easily censored and
manipulated. Finally, we can't discount the significant amount of
non-law-abiding Bitcoin economic activity that does happen, and I do not
believe we should adopt consensus-building processes that shut those
stakeholders out of the discussion.

As an aside, I have a friend of mine who made a Bitcoin related product
with non-culturally-specific appeal.  I asked where she was shipping her
product, and it turned out that a super majority went to
non-English-speaking countries. (she might be willing to go on public
record about this; I can ask)

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