Dnia niedziela, 28 czerwca 2015 20:52:43 Sean Lynch pisze:
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.
But that's exactly why I was so surprised. I filter out the people that make no sense or deat5h threats, but when I see a person that usually seems to make sense, and yet lands a straw man, I'm taken aback. :)
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.
Fair point.
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.
The question is: can the *cryptocurrency* ecosystem survive if BitCoin hard- forks. Some say "no, because loss of trust"; some say "yeah, it will actually grow strong". I'm not convinced either way. -- Pozdrawiam, Michał "rysiek" Woźniak Zmieniam klucz GPG :: http://rys.io/pl/147 GPG Key Transition :: http://rys.io/en/147