From: Tom Harding <tomh@thinlink•com>
To: bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org, Raystonn <raystonn@hotmail•com>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP Process and Votes
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 12:03:57 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <558C509D.4010804@thinlink.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <COL402-EAS127289185B11D0D58E1F5E6CDAE0@phx.gbl>
On 6/24/2015 8:00 PM, Raystonn wrote:
>
> > Consensus-code changes are unanimous. They must be.
>
> Excellent. Now we are getting to some actual written rules. How about
> updating the BIP process documentation with this? Everyone should be
> able to read the rules of the coin they are buying.
>
> One moment though. Can you tell me how this particular rule came to
> be? The creator of Bitcoin violated this rule many times. So it must
> have been adopted after his departure. What process was followed to
> adopt this new rule? Was there consensus for it at the time? A huge
> portion of the user community is under the impression that Satoshi's
> written plans, some of which violate this new rule, will be
> implemented. So there certainly would not be consensus for this rule
> today.
>
Great question; very fair. I, for one, eagerly await Mark's answer.
I hope nobody forgot to tell adversaries totally outside the open source
ecosystem what the rules for hard forking changes are.
The Chinese miners have it right - we have to work together. If you
want to see who's trying, look at who has written a concrete BIP/code
vs. who hasn't; who has made changes in response to feedback, and who
hasn't.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-06-25 19:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-25 3:00 Raystonn
2015-06-25 3:19 ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-06-26 11:13 ` Jorge Timón
2015-06-26 12:34 ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-06-27 11:28 ` Jorge Timón
2015-06-27 12:50 ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-06-28 12:30 ` Jorge Timón
2015-06-28 13:13 ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-06-28 15:35 ` Jorge Timón
2015-06-28 16:23 ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-06-28 19:05 ` Patrick Murck
2015-06-28 20:10 ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-06-28 20:16 ` Mark Friedenbach
2015-06-28 20:26 ` Ricardo Filipe
2015-06-28 21:00 ` Adam Back
2015-06-29 0:13 ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-06-29 0:23 ` Andrew Lapp
2015-06-29 1:11 ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-06-28 23:52 ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-06-28 20:21 ` NxtChg
2015-06-25 19:03 ` Tom Harding [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-06-25 3:53 Raystonn
2015-06-25 0:18 Raystonn
2015-06-24 23:41 Raystonn
2015-06-24 23:49 ` Jeff Garzik
2015-06-25 0:11 ` Bryan Bishop
2015-06-25 0:21 ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-06-25 0:07 ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-06-25 1:50 ` Mark Friedenbach
2015-06-25 2:30 ` Alex Morcos
2015-06-25 2:34 ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-06-25 5:07 ` Jeff Garzik
2015-06-25 5:41 ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-06-25 6:06 ` Pindar Wong
2015-06-25 6:15 ` Mark Friedenbach
2015-06-25 6:16 ` Warren Togami Jr.
2015-06-25 6:27 ` Pindar Wong
2015-06-25 7:51 ` cipher anthem
2015-06-25 10:09 ` nxtchg
2015-06-25 12:42 ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-06-25 20:05 ` Tier Nolan
2015-06-26 0:42 ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-07-01 22:34 ` odinn
2015-06-25 3:42 ` Gareth Williams
2015-06-25 4:10 ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-06-25 13:36 ` s7r
2015-06-25 13:41 ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-06-25 13:51 ` s7r
2015-06-25 14:08 ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-06-25 17:03 ` Jeff Garzik
2015-06-25 17:29 ` Milly Bitcoin
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