On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 2:58 AM, Peter R <pete...@gmx.com> wrote: > I think you’re being intentionally obtuse here: accepting a block composed > entirely of valid transactions that is 1.1 MB is entirely different than > accepting a TX that creates a ten thousand bitcoins out of thin air. The > market would love the former but abhor the later. I believe you can > recognize the difference.
It is not technically distinct--today; politically-- perhaps, but-- sorry, no element of your prior message indicated that you were interested in discussing politics rather than technology; on a mailing list much more strongly scoped for the latter; I hope you can excuse me for missing your intention prior to your most recent post. That said, I believe you are privileging your own political preferences in seeing the one rule of the bitcoin system as categorically distinct even politically. No law of nature leaves the other criteria I specified less politically negotiable, and we can see concrete examples all around us -- the notion that funds can be confiscated via external authority (spending without the owners signature) is a more or less universal property of other modern systems of money, that economic controls out to exist to regulate the supply of money for the good of an economy is another widely deployed political perspective. You, yourself, recently published a work on the stable self regulation of block sizes based on mining incentives that took as its starting premise a bitcoin that was forever inflationary. Certainly things differ in degrees, but this is not the mailing list to debate the details of political inertia. > Thank you for conceding on that point. You're welcome, but I would have preferred that you instead of your thanks you would have responded in kind and acknowledged my correction that other consensus inconsistencies discovered in implementations thus far (none, that I'm aware of) could be classified as "maybe"; and in doing so retained a semblance of a connection to a the technical purposes of this mailing list. _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing list bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
