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Re:How the Bitcoin Community Turned to War by Hermel on Sunday February 28, 2016 @12:57PM (#11191635)
That's funny about the debate. Both sides accuse the other of changing the rules. Large-blockers want to increase a parameter in the code. And small-blockers want to change Satoshi's implicit plan of increasing it as necessary.
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Re:How the Bitcoin Community Turned to War by makomk on Sunday February 28, 2016 @02:47PM (#11192062)
Satoshi's assumptions in the early days about how easy it would be to make major changes to Bitcoin have very little relevance now that it's in widespread use. I think he was also planning to re-enable the disabled opcodes and various other things that are unlikely to ever happen because they'd cause a hard fork.
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Re:How the Bitcoin Community Turned to War by Hermel on Sunday February 28, 2016 @04:52PM (#11192548)
The opposite is the case. Satoshi's assumptions are relevant as they are the basis for the expectations people have. Departing from these visions is what upsets a lot of users, and rightly so.
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