On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 9:07 AM, <justusranv...@riseup.net> wrote: > On 2015-06-18 14:53, Jeff Garzik wrote: > >> Consensus changes - worded another way - change Bitcoin's Constitution - >> The Rules that everyone in the system is -forced- to follow, or be ignored >> by the system. >> > > Bitcoin does not and can not function as a set of rules imposed by some > people onto other people.
This is an engineering list. The quote precisely describes how the bitcoin consensus system functions. Users' choice is largely binary: Follow the rules, or bitcoin software ignores you. -- Jeff Garzik Bitcoin core developer and open source evangelist BitPay, Inc. https://bitpay.com/
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