[Bitcoin-development] questions about bitcoin-XT code fork & non-consensus hard-fork

Sean Lynch seanl at literati.org
Thu Jun 18 11:24:14 PDT 2015


On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 3:51 PM Dr Adam Back <adam at 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.
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