Re: [bitcoin-dev] I do not support the BIP 148 UASF

2017-05-22 Thread Steven Pine via bitcoin-dev
I'm glad some discussion has been moved back here. Correct me if I am wrong, but currently core developers are arguing over whether or not to allow an optional configuration switch which defaults off but signals and enforces BIP148 when used. Who are we protecting users from, themselves? Are you p

Re: [bitcoin-dev] I do not support the BIP 148 UASF

2017-04-14 Thread Steven Pine via bitcoin-dev
onsensus that does not have 95% mining support? I appreciate your time and expertise, and to not take up anymore, back to lurking i go. On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 11:29 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > On Sat, Apr 15, 2017 at 2:01 AM, Steven Pine via bitcoin-dev > wrote: > > Regarding this las

Re: [bitcoin-dev] I do not support the BIP 148 UASF

2017-04-14 Thread Steven Pine via bitcoin-dev
> Segwit is a good improvement and we should respect it by knowing that it's good enough to wait for, and for however its activated to be done the best way we know how. Regarding this last point I was under the impression that if Segwit did not activate by November then core was going to move on,

Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP proposal: Increase block size limit to 2 megabytes

2016-02-07 Thread Steven Pine via bitcoin-dev
instantly, and 28 days later it was the flag day, those 28 days would be in > a different context. There is no surprise here. > > On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 1:33 PM, Steven Pine via bitcoin-dev < > bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > >> Is it me or did Gavin ignore Y

Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP proposal: Increase block size limit to 2 megabytes

2016-02-07 Thread Steven Pine via bitcoin-dev
Is it me or did Gavin ignore Yifu's direct questions? In case you missed it Gavin -- ~ "We can look at the adoption of the last major Bitcoin core release to guess how long it might take people to upgrade. 0.11.0 was released on 12 July, 2015. Twenty eight days later, about 38% of full nodes were

Re: [bitcoin-dev] This thread is not about the soft/hard fork technical debate

2015-10-05 Thread Steven Pine via bitcoin-dev
It's pretty clear Mike has turned into concern troll and bully. He insults people, mischaracterizes others, quibbles over words and definitions and has stated numerous times in other forums he has no interest in building consensus changes he doesn't agree with himself. He's lost his integrity and

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Scaling Bitcoin conference micro-report

2015-09-20 Thread Steven Pine via bitcoin-dev
That's a simple fallacy, historically governments even hegemons, fail, in fact it would be odd to assert that a government will not fail, therefore ascribing godlike and limitless powers to a government is again the view of either a shill or someone untutored in history. On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 5:

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Scaling Bitcoin conference micro-report

2015-09-20 Thread Steven Pine via bitcoin-dev
It's amazing how foolish some people are to continue trusting governments especially in light of recent history: a seemingly endless, Orwellian 'war on terror', multiple regional conflicts often justified by fake evidence, wholesale disregard of law and basic human covenants such as do not torture,