Jason Livesay via bitcoin-dev wrote: > In order to keep the existing brand momentum, network, and business > investment, These are precisely the issues that the Bitcoin Development team SHOULD NOT concern themselves with as they are not technical in nature. > I believe the smoothest path forward is to build a new, additional > system re-using the bitcoin name. I suggest this new system come > packaged with the bitcoin core client and be referred to as > QuickBitcoin or qbtc or something similar. As far as the public is > concerned it could simply continue to be called bitcoin. The system > will work on top of traditional bitcoins but have a mechanism for > more/faster transactions. Exactly what mechanism doesn't have to be > perfect, it just needs to be reasonably secure/useful and something > that the community will accept. A few members of the development team have already begun doing something along these lines but its future does not look promising.
I do not see any indication that this Christmas will be any more or less busy than last Christmas. Correct me if I'm wrong, but retail spending as a whole still makes up only a small percentage of Bitcoin transactions. phm http://phm.link _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing list bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
