On Thursday, September 08, 2011 12:51:02 PM Mike Hearn wrote: > Bitcoin is one of the few pieces of software I use that has no concept of > automatic updates or even notifications at all. Yet the network badly > relies on people upgrading for stability, scalability and to enable new > features. > > If the alert system goes away, it'd just end up being replaced by polling > something over HTTP, which is less decentralized than before. Having zero > way to communicate upgrades to end-users is a non-starter for anything > serious about mass market penetration.
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