Nelson, Talking politics, Devs do day and night, however politics is also about knocking on door and not sitting behind a keyboard writing a perl script to spam the politicians with the same content. Politics is about maneuvering to be in a position to get the elected official to do what you want because if he don't, you will make sure it will not get elected next time.
I personally never could finish drilling into the code (which is very elegantly written) because some New York idiot decided that Bitcoin was too dangerous for society to handle. I had to stop playing with the code and turn my attention elsewhere. *You can read the opinion of one of the idiot here : http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/12/opinion/apple-google-when-phone-encryption-blocks-justice.html <http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/12/opinion/apple-google-when-phone-encryption-blocks-justice.html>* Theo On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 5:54 PM, Nelson Castillo <nelson...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 4:51 PM, Theo Chino via bitcoin-dev < > bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > >> And this is why I love Bitcoin, politics + technical = all in one. >> > > If you think developers do not talk politics go read LKML... Politics are > inevitable. > I think the "I don't know enough to code (Bitcoin) but I think that" > belongs somewhere else (This is the -dev list). > > >> >> Regards, >> Theo Chino >> https://www.facebook.com/groups/557495624389384 (politics in NYS about >> bitcoin.) >> http://frenchmorning.com/en/2014/08/18/french-robin-hood-bitcoin-new-york >> >> On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 5:19 PM, Hector Chu via bitcoin-dev < >> bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: >> >>> Haha. Reminds me of when I asked Gavin earlier this year about whether >>> he cared about politics and he replied that he only cared about and >>> was responsible for the technicals. Little did he know he would >>> unwittingly become the technical enabler for Mike's political >>> shenanigans. >>> >>> On 19 August 2015 at 21:19, Eric Lombrozo via bitcoin-dev >>> <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: >>> > Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being >>> governed >>> > by those who are dumber. >>> > - Plato >>> > >>> > On Aug 19, 2015, at 1:11 PM, Eric Lombrozo <elombr...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> > >>> > Alex, >>> > >>> > With all due respect, right now the biggest challenge facing Bitcoin >>> is not >>> > technical but political. I would love to see this list go back to >>> technical >>> > discussions, but unfortunately, until this political stuff is >>> resolved, even >>> > technical discussion is purely philosophical as there’s little chance >>> of >>> > actually making good progress on consensus…which in a space where >>> everything >>> > depends on consensus pretty much makes everything else moot. >>> > >>> > On Aug 19, 2015, at 1:08 PM, Alex Morcos via bitcoin-dev >>> > <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: >>> > >>> > This is a message that I wrote and had hoped that all the core devs >>> would >>> > sign on to, but I failed to finish organizing it. So I'll just say it >>> from >>> > myself. >>> > >>> > There has been a valuable discussion over the last several months >>> regarding >>> > a hard fork with respect to block size. However the sheer volume of >>> email >>> > and proportion of discussion that is more philosophical than technical >>> has >>> > rendered this list almost unusable for its primary purpose of technical >>> > discussion related to Bitcoin development. Many of us share the blame >>> for >>> > letting the discourse run off topic to such a degree, and we hope that >>> an >>> > appeal for individual self restraint will allow this list to return to >>> a >>> > higher signal-to-noise ratio. >>> > -Please consider the degree to which any email you send is related to >>> > technical development before sending it. >>> > -Please consider how many emails you are sending to this list >>> regarding the >>> > same topic. >>> > This list is not appropriate for an endless back and forth debate on >>> the >>> > philosophical underpinnings of Bitcoin. Although such a debate may be >>> > worthwhile it should be taken to another forum for discussion. Every >>> email >>> > you send is received by hundreds of developers who value their time as >>> much >>> > as you value yours. If your intended audience isn't really the >>> majority of >>> > them, perhaps private communication would be more appropriate. >>> > >>> > Thanks, >>> > Alex >>> > >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > bitcoin-dev mailing list >>> > bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org >>> > https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > bitcoin-dev mailing list >>> > bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org >>> > https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ >>> bitcoin-dev mailing list >>> bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org >>> https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> bitcoin-dev mailing list >> bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org >> https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev >> >> >
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