Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Working on social contracts (was: Paper Currency)

From: Justus Ranvier <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 22:01:17 +0200

On 05/19/2014 09:41 PM, Gavin Andresen wrote:
> Now I'm really confused.
> 
> Why would Mike or I have the authority to write a "social contract"
> to promise anything about future-Bitcoin?

YOU can make promises about YOUR future behavior. So can everyone else.

The rest of the community can keep track of which developers will and
will not make promises about what changes they will and will not
attempt to implement in Bitcoin, and they can use that information to
make informed decisions about which software they will choose to support.