I think that's fair, so long as we limit bitcoin-development discussion to issues that are relevant to the owners of the hashrate and companies that pay developer salaries.
What I'm asking for is some honesty that Bitcoin is a centralized system and to stop arguing technical points on the altar of distributed/decentralized whatever. It's pretty clear if you want decentralized you should go with altchains. I'm here because I want to sell corn for bitcoin, and I believe it will be more profitable for me to do that with a bitcoin-blockchain-based system in which I have the capability to audit the code that executes the trade. On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 04:53:48PM -0700, Mark Friedenbach wrote: > This isn't distributed-systems-development, it is bitcoin-development. > Discussion over chain parameters is a fine thing to have among people > who are interested in that sort of thing. But not here. > > On 03/23/2014 04:17 PM, Troy Benjegerdes wrote: > > I find it very irresponsible for Bitcoiners to on one hand extol the virtues > > of distributed systems and then in the same message claim any discussion > > about alternate chains as 'off-topic'. > > > > If bitcoin-core is for *distributed systems*, then all the different > > altcoins > > with different hash algorithms should be viable topics for discussion. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/13534_NeoTech _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
