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March 18th, 2017

I hold allegiance to no man, to no dev team in Bitcoin. My intention is to run the code that I judge best protects my financial sovereignty.

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@kyletorpey Ah OK. Code speaks louder than words :-)

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@kyletorpey No, I’m saying that there are literally 0 code differences between their github repo and Core. https://t.co/EdQYoeyFI3

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@TuurDemeester Point being, however, that a dev could spend weeks working on a single pull request.

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@TuurDemeester That is, lines of code are unrelated to contribution counts.

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@TuurDemeester A commit to a project’s default branch or gh-pages branch, creation of an issue, or new Pull Request counts as a contribution

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@TuurDemeester If you’re talking about open source dev, probably. Though there’s more to being a good dev than writing many lines of code.

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@kyletorpey As far as I can tell it doesn’t have any code for Emergent Consensus.

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RT @TuurDemeester: ‘Innovative’ ETH overtaking ‘stale’ BTC? @aantonop responds: “don’t mistake easy sailing for great sailors”. https://t.c…

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@Satoshi_N_ It was a surprise to me too; I think very few people understand how it works. https://t.co/bGHyMkftF9

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@zooko @ryanxcharles But my original tweet was really referring to miners planning on killing the non-EC chain.

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@zooko @ryanxcharles By voluntarily switching to Emergent Consensus, node operators allow miners to decide block size up to network limit.

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@BitcoinBelle @CharlieShrem “We” is whoever is interested in participating in Bitcoin.

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If I’m reading this correctly, the max block size acceptable by Bitcoin Unlimited nodes is not 32MB, but 256MB. https://t.co/4OZ5YIcyHQ

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@ryanxcharles Probably. The trade-off is that either you accept up to 32 MB blocks (currently) or you risk falling out of consensus.

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@ryanxcharles Right, therefore users either get forced to take on more resource usage than they want or people fall out of consensus.

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@ryanxcharles If you’re referring to EC, either the cap is only temporary or with a high AD, you get forked off the main chain.

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@GaryBriane Selling while price is spiking prevents it from going higher and vice versa, thus reducing the total price change: volatility.

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“Efficiency is the price we pay to buy liberty [in decentralized systems.]” - @aantonop

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Is Bitcoin’s governance “decentralized?” @aantonop explains: https://t.co/eEjX5OAd0J

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@kristovatlas @jimmysong Surely we’re in agreement that Satoshi is no longer relevant and anyone is free to create their own code.

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@kristovatlas @jimmysong I’m afraid you’ve completely lost me. Is there a more detailed explanation of this argument somewhere?

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@kristovatlas @jimmysong Your implied changes being that the 1MB cap gets raised. The 1MB cap is the explicit rule. One is code, one isn’t.

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@kristovatlas @jimmysong With “Emergent Consensus” the block size is “centrally planned” by a small group of pool operators…

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@kristovatlas @jimmysong There’s a bit of difference between explicit rules and implied future changes, but I see what you mean.

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@kristovatlas @jimmysong “Central planning?” How is BU any less “centrally planned” than Core & other implementations?

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@brianchoffman It’s the pesky permissionless pegging problem holding them back.

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@kristovatlas I think @jimmysong did a fine job laying out alternatives. https://t.co/kX52BsQ85d

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If you try to force other Bitcoin users to change the rules to which they agree against their will, you’re gonna have a bad time.

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@granthummer @naval This can and will be changed. I suggest looking into user activated soft forks. The economy wil… https://t.co/g13AFUCGld

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