Re: [bitcoin-dev] Working Towards Consensus

2022-05-08 Thread Billy Tetrud via bitcoin-dev
source projects are easily forked > and > > no authority (I?m certainly no authority) can stop things like this > > happening again. > > > > I?ll follow the responses if people have thoughts (I won't be responding > > to the instigators of this contentious sof

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Working Towards Consensus

2022-05-03 Thread John Carvalho via bitcoin-dev
> > > The path to consensus is to propose things that everyone needs. > If there's an insight here, it isn't clear what it is to me. As stated, > this is something I can only 100% disagree with. Its possible that > literally nothing about bitcoin is something that "everyone needs". Its > pretty cle

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Working Towards Consensus

2022-05-03 Thread Billy Tetrud via bitcoin-dev
gt;> tries >> > it again is sufficient. I?m not sure. Obviously Bitcoin is a >> permissionless >> > network, Bitcoin Core and other open source projects are easily forked >> and >> > no authority (I?m certainly no authority) can stop things like this >>

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Working Towards Consensus

2022-05-02 Thread John Carvalho via bitcoin-dev
conversation. If an > individual > > can go directly to miners to get soft forks activated bypassing technical > > concerns from many developers, bypassing Bitcoin Core and bypassing users > > Bitcoin is fundamentally broken. The reason I still have hope that it > isn'

[bitcoin-dev] Working Towards Consensus

2022-05-01 Thread Jeremy Rubin via bitcoin-dev
Developers, There is much to say about the events of the last two weeks and the response to them. I've been searching for the right words to share here, but I think it best that short of a more thoughtful writeup I start with a timely small step with the below comments. First, let me be clear: I