I did wonder what the post actually meant, I recommend appending /s after sarcasm so it's clear. Lots gets lost in text. But I agree with you btw his response was not particularly tactful. On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 7:19 PM, Warren Togami Jr. wrote: > By reversing Mike's language to the reality of the situation I had hoped > people would realize how abjectly ignorant and insensitive his statement > was. I am sorry to those in the community if they misunderstood my post. I > thought it was obvious that it was sarcasm where I do not seriously believe > particular participants should be excluded. > > On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 3:06 AM, Thy Shizzle > wrote: > >> Doesn't mean you should build something that says "fuck you" to the >> companies that have invested in farms of ASICS. To say "Oh yea if they >> can't mine it how we want stuff 'em" is naive. I get decentralisation, but >> don't dis incentivise mining. If miners are telling you that you're going >> to hurt them, esp. Miners that combined hold > 50% hashing power, why would >> you say too bad so sad? Why not just start stripping bitcoin out of >> adopters wallets? Same thing. >> ------------------------------ >> From: Warren Togami Jr. >> Sent: ‎1/‎06/‎2015 10:30 PM >> Cc: Bitcoin Dev >> Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Fwd: Block Size Increase Requirements >> >> Whilst it would be nice if miners in *outside* China can carry on >> forever regardless of their internet situation, nobody has any inherent >> "right" to mine if they can't do the job - if miners in *outside* China >> can't get the trivial amounts of bandwidth required through their >> firewall *TO THE MAJORITY OF THE HASHRATE* and end up being outcompeted >> then OK, too bad, we'll have to carry on without them. >> >> >> On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 12:13 AM, Mike Hearn wrote: >> >> Whilst it would be nice if miners in China can carry on forever >> regardless of their internet situation, nobody has any inherent "right" to >> mine if they can't do the job - if miners in China can't get the trivial >> amounts of bandwidth required through their firewall and end up being >> outcompeted then OK, too bad, we'll have to carry on without them. >> >> But I'm not sure why it should be a big deal. They can always run a >> node on a server in Taiwan and connect the hardware to it via a VPN or so. >> >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Bitcoin-development mailing list > Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development > >