Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proposal: A measured response to save Bitcoin Core

2015-05-31 Thread Eric Lombrozo
Drak, I mostly agree with your assessment...except for your last claim. Not that I wouldn't like to find a way to avoid politics, but like I've argued before, it is inevitable that sooner or later any consensus protocol that seeks dynamism will encounter politics. The block size discussion, whil

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proposal: A measured response to save Bitcoin Core

2015-05-31 Thread Btc Drak
On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 1:29 AM, Matt Whitlock wrote: > 3. What *is* clear at this point is that Gavin will move ahead with his > proposal, regardless of whether the remainder of the Bitcoin Core > committers agree with him. If he has to commit his changes to Bitcoin XT > and then rally the miner

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proposal: A measured response to save Bitcoin Core

2015-05-31 Thread s7r
Hi, For the less crypto engineering experts but highly interested in Bitcoin and working with Bitcoin on daily basis reading the list, what would be an easy to understand explanation about how does this solution represent a good fix? So, we have a hard cap of 1 MB block currently. This is not eno

[Bitcoin-development] Proposal: A measured response to save Bitcoin Core

2015-05-30 Thread Matt Whitlock
Greg, Pieter, Jeff, and Wladimir, I'll try to be brief to respect your time. 1. I don't want to see Bitcoin die. 2. As has been discussed on this list and elsewhere: Bitcoin could potentially die due to economic and/or game-theoretic complications arising from raising the block size limit, but