On Sun, Jun 28, 2015, 12:38 rysiek <[1]rysiek@hackerspace.pl> wrote:

     Dnia czwartek, 18 czerwca 2015 18:24:14 Sean Lynch pisze:
     > On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 3:51 PM Dr Adam Back
     <[2]adam@cypherspace.org> wrote:
     > > If people on *cypherpunks* cant get the points in the post, I
     think
     > > the world has a problem.  The price of security in a distributed
     > > system like bitcoin is eternal vigilance, but if people dont
     > > understand what constitutes a risk and hence what to be vigilant
     for,
     > > the meta-system can be unreliable and lose its assurances.  I
     think we
     > > need to explain some more concepts and probably people will over
     time
     > > learn things and and an influencer pyramid emerge as happened in
     > > privacy technology.
     >
     > Yes, I'm sure that when people who disagree with you, it's always
     because
     > they are wrong and never because you don't understand the
     situation as well
     > as you think you do. I'm sure you know more about Bitcoin than
     Gavin does.

     Wow, that's a low blow. Arguing by authority, and then a false
     dichotomy:
     "either you know more about Bitcoin than X, or you should not have a
     voice at
      all on this"

     Might I suggest considering arguing on the merits instead, next
     time? :)

   Perhaps if you bothered to read more than the last message in the
   thread you would realize that I already attempted that. I think your
   expectations are a bit high when there are people on the thread arguing
   that we should really consider the opinions of those making death
   threats. IOW listen to the terrorists.

   It seems to me that people are terrified by a hard fork because they
   have a huge stake in Bitcoin. To me that's the best argument there
   could possibly be to fork now and get it out of the way. Bitcoin can't
   survive if it ossifies due to the fears of morons who can't be bothered
   to diversify their investment, and who have such low morals that they'd
   stoop to making death threats.

   If we're going to argue based on the merits then let's do that, and
   leave the death threats and doom and gloom out of it. We need to be
   thinking beyond Bitcoin to the future of cryptocurrencies on general,
   and a healthy cryptocurrencies ecosystem cannot survive as an ossified
   monoculture.

References

   1. mailto:rysiek@hackerspace.pl
   2. mailto:adam@cypherspace.org