Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Concerns Regarding Threats by a Developer to Remove Commit Access from Other Developers

From: Jeff Garzik <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2015 09:28:43 -0700

On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 9:07 AM, <[email-masked]> wrote:

> On 2015-06-18 14:53, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
>> Consensus changes - worded another way - change Bitcoin's Constitution -
>> The Rules that everyone in the system is -forced- to follow, or be ignored
>> by the system.
>>
>
> Bitcoin does not and can not function as a set of rules imposed by some
> people onto other people.

This is an engineering list.  The quote precisely describes how the bitcoin
consensus system functions.

Users' choice is largely binary:  Follow the rules, or bitcoin software
ignores you.

-- 
Jeff Garzik
Bitcoin core developer and open source evangelist
BitPay, Inc.      https://bitpay.com/