I disagree. I think all client-side adoption of SW reliably tells you is that
those implementers saw value in it greater than the cost of implementation.
It's possible what they valued was the malleability fix and didn't see the
limited potential circumvention of MAX_BLOCK_SIZE material to their
While this isn't really the place to discuss it, I respectfully disagree. Mike
appears to be making a point concerning Bitcoin protocol authorship and on the
perceived value of soft-forks. It doesn't look like simple trolling to me. Mike
and Gregory are both extremely intelligent and well-versed
I'm not intending to completely dismiss your concerns but as a data point: I
read this list daily and it usually takes 15 minutes or less while I drink a
cup of coffee.
My concern is that this is one of the (maybe *the*) last uncensored persisted
forums related to technical bitcoin discussion w
> So I'll repeat the question that I posed before - given that there are clear,
> explicit downsides,
> what is the purpose of doing things this way? Where is the gain for ordinary
> Bitcoin users?
+1 for a direct answer to this question.
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Gavin has been very clear about the fact that he's on vacation. I'm not sure
what you want Mike to say. It's obvious the Bitcoin Core developer pitchforks
are out for him so there isn't really anything he can possibly say which will
be constructively received on this highly adversarial and incre
