On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 10:08 PM, Jeff Garzik <jgar...@gmail.com> wrote: >> You present this as if the Bitcoin Core development team is in charge >> of deciding the network consensus rules, and is responsible for making >> changes to it in order to satisfy economic demand. If that is the >> case, Bitcoin has failed, in my opinion. > > > This circles back to Problem #1: Avoidance of a choice is a still a choice > - failing to ACK a MAX_BLOCK_SIZE increase still creates very real Economic > Change Event risk.
We are not avoiding a choice. We don't have the authority to make a choice. > And #3: If the likely predicted course is that Bitcoin Core will not accept > a protocol change changing MAX_BLOCK_SIZE via hard fork in the short term, > the core dev team should communicate that position clearly to users and > media. I indeed think we can communicate much better that deciding consensus rules is not within our power. -- Pieter _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing list bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
